Software testing is an important part of the development cycle, yet it requires specialized
expertise and substantial developer effort to adequately test software. Recent discoveries of …

Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in
debugging, and have matured enough to be adopted by industry. However, one critical …

Fault Localization (FL), in which a developer seeks to identify which part of the code is
malfunctioning and needs to be fixed, is a recurring challenge in debugging. To reduce …

Anti-unification (AU) is a fundamental operation for generalization computation used for
inductive inference. It is the dual operation to unification, an operation at the foundation of …

While Genetic Improvement (GI) is a useful paradigm to improve functional and
nonfunctional aspects of software, existing techniques tended to use the same set of …

DevOps has emerged as one of the most rapidly evolving software development paradigms.
With the growing concerns surrounding security in software systems, the DevSecOps …

Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs automatically without human
debugging efforts and plays a crucial role in software development and maintenance …

Interest in anti-unification, the dual problem of unification, is rising due to various new
applications. For example, anti-unification-based techniques have been used recently in …

Automated program repair (APR) tools have unlocked the potential for the rapid rectification
of codebase issues. However, to encourage wider adoption of program repair in practice, it …

Automated program repair, also known as APR, is an approach for automatically repairing
software faults. There is a large amount of research on automated program repair, but very …