Background: Over the years, Automated Program Repair (APR) has attracted much attention
from both academia and industry since it can reduce the costs in fixing bugs. However, how …

Smart contracts are pieces of code that reside inside the blockchains and can be triggered to
execute any transaction when specifically predefined conditions are satisfied. Being …

Software patching is one of the most significant mechanisms to combat vulnerabilities. To
demystify underlying patch details, the techniques of patch differential analysis (aka patch …

Many code changes are inherently repetitive, and researchers employ repetitiveness of the
code changes to generate bug fix patterns. Automatic Program Repair (APR) can …

Because software emerged, locating software faults has been intensively researched,
culminating in various approaches and tools that have been applied in real development …

The complexity and diversity of bug fixes require developers to understand bug fixes from
multiple perspectives in addition to fine-grained code changes. The dependencies among …

Automated program repair (APR) has attracted widespread attention in recent years with
substantial techniques being proposed. Meanwhile, a number of benchmarks have been …

Architecture degradation has a strong negative impact on software quality and can result in
significant losses. Severe software degradation does not happen overnight. Software …

Static tools like Findbugs allow their users to manually define bug patterns, so they can
detect more types of bugs, but due to the complexity and variety of programs, it is difficult to …

Developers change software programs for various purposes (eg, bug fixes, feature
additions, and code refactorings), but the intents of code changes are often not recorded or …