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 …

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 …

Debugging consumes significant time and effort in any major software development project.
Moreover, even after the root cause of a bug is identified, fixing the bug is non-trivial. Given …

The field of automated software repair lacks a set of common benchmark problems.
Although benchmark sets are used widely throughout computer science, existing …

Recent advances in program repair techniques have raised the possibility of patching bugs
automatically. For an automatically generated patch to be accepted by developers, it should …

Automated Program Repair (APR) is one of the most recent advances in automated
debugging, and can directly fix buggy programs with minimal human intervention. Although …

Automated program repair can potentially reduce debugging costs and improve software
quality but recent studies have drawn attention to shortcomings in the quality of …

Providing feedback on programming assignments is a tedious task for the instructor, and
even impossible in large Massive Open Online Courses with thousands of students …

In program debugging, finding a failing run is only the first step; what about correcting the
fault? Can we automate the second task as well as the first? The AutoFix-E tool …

A large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging,
including both automated fault localization and program repair. However, existing fault …