With the rapid development and large-scale popularity of program software, modern society
increasingly relies on software systems. However, the problems exposed by software have …

Concept This paper is a living review on automatic program repair 1. Compared to a
traditional survey, a living review evolves over time. I use a concise bullet-list style meant to …

Patch correctness has been the focus of automated program repair (APR) in recent years
due to the propensity of APR tools to generate overfitting patches. Given a generated patch …

With the rapid development and large-scale popularity of program software, modern society
increasingly relies on software systems. However, the problems exposed by software have …

Context: In the context of collaborative software development, there are many application
areas of task assignment such as assigning a developer to fix a bug, or assigning a code …

This article presents CirFix, a framework for automatically repairing defects in hardware
designs implemented in languages like Verilog. We propose a novel fault localization …

Evaluation is the foundation of automated program repair (APR), as it provides empirical
evidence on strengths and weaknesses of APR techniques. However, the reliability of such …

Evolutionary algorithms and related mutation-based methods have been used in software
engineering, with recent emphasis on the problem of repairing bugs. In this work, programs …

Deep learning vulnerability detection tools are increasing in popularity and have been
shown to be effective. These tools rely on large volume of high quality training data, which …

Automated program repair techniques leveraging deep learning have shown remarkable
performances in bug repair. These techniques commonly employ pre-trained neural …