Automated program repair Page 1 56 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE ACM | DECEMBER 2019
| VOL. 62 | NO. 12 review articles ALEX IS A software developer, a recent hire at the company …

Abstract Automated Program Repair (APR) has attracted significant attention from software
engineering research and practice communities in the last decade. Several teams have …

Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs automatically and plays a crucial
role in software development and maintenance. With the recent advances in deep learning …

We revisit the performance of template-based APR to build comprehensive knowledge
about the effectiveness of fix patterns, and to highlight the importance of complementary …

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 …

The performance of fault localization techniques is critical to their adoption in practice. This
paper reports on an empirical study of a wide range of fault localization techniques on real …

Test-based automated program repair has been a prolific field of research in software
engineering in the last decade. Many approaches have indeed been proposed, which …

A large body of the literature of automated program repair develops approaches where
patches are generated to be validated against an oracle (eg, a test suite). Because such an …

Test-based automated program repair (APR) has attracted huge attention from both industry
and academia. Despite the significant progress made in recent studies, the overfitting …

Learning-based program repair has achieved good results in a recent series of papers. Yet,
we observe that the related work fails to repair some bugs because of a lack of knowledge …