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 …

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 …

We present Prophet, a novel patch generation system that works with a set of successful
human patches obtained from open-source software repositories to learn a probabilistic …

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 …

Developers often need to search for appropriate APIs for their programming tasks. Although
most libraries have API reference documentation, it is not easy to find appropriate APIs due …

Purpose Software developers extensively use stack overflow (SO) for knowledge sharing on
software development. Thus, software engineering researchers have started mining the …

Test-based automatic program repair has attracted a lot of attention in recent years.
However, the test suites in practice are often too weak to guarantee correctness and existing …

Code search is an unavoidable activity in software development. Various approaches and
techniques have been explored in the literature to support code search tasks. Most of these …