This article presents a survey on automatic software repair. Automatic software repair
consists of automatically finding a solution to software bugs without human intervention. This …

Automated Program Repair (APR) helps improve the efficiency of software development and
maintenance. Recent APR techniques use deep learning, particularly the encoder-decoder …

Despite being one of the most basic tasks in software development, debugging is still
performed in a mostly manual way, leading to high cost and low performance. To address …

Debugging software failures is still a painful, time consuming, and expensive process. For
instance, recent studies showed that debugging activities often account for about 50% of the …

Automated program repair (APR) has great potential to reduce bug-fixing effort and many
approaches have been proposed in recent years. APRs are often treated as a search …

Since debugging is a time-consuming activity, automated program repair tools such as
GenProg have garnered interest. A recent study revealed that the majority of GenProg …

Software fault localization, the act of identifying the locations of faults in a program, is widely
recognized to be one of the most tedious, time consuming, and expensive-yet equally critical …

We present SPR, a new program repair system that combines staged program repair and
condition synthesis. These techniques enable SPR to work productively with a set of …

Due to the difficulty of repairing defect, many research efforts have been devoted into
automatic defect repair. Given a buggy program that fails some test cases, a typical …

This work is motivated by the pervasive use of method invocations in object-oriented (OO)
programs, and indeed their prevalence in patches of OO-program bugs. We propose a …