In the past decade, research on test-suite-based automatic program repair has grown
significantly. Each year, new approaches and implementations are featured in major …

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

Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to improve software reliability. Recently, neural
machine translation (NMT) techniques have been used to automatically fix software bugs …

Automated generate-and-validate (GV) program repair techniques (APR) typically rely on
hard-coded rules, thus only fixing bugs following specific fix patterns. These rules require a …

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 …

Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source
code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of …

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 …

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 …

Despite the capability in successfully fixing more and more real-world bugs, existing
Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques are still challenged by the long-standing …