Automatic program repair has been a longstanding goal in software engineering, yet
debugging remains a largely manual process. We introduce a fully automated method for …

This paper describes GenProg, an automated method for repairing defects in off-the-shelf,
legacy programs without formal specifications, program annotations, or special coding …

There are more bugs in real-world programs than human programmers can realistically
address. This paper evaluates two research questions:“What fraction of bugs can be …

Software bugs remain a compelling problem. Automated program repair is a promising
approach for reducing cost, and many methods have recently demonstrated positive results …

Software bugs can cause significant financial loss and even the loss of human lives. To
reduce such loss, developers devote substantial efforts to fixing bugs, which generally …

We present our automated program repair technique ssFix which leverages existing code
(from a code database) that is syntax-related to the context of a bug to produce patches for …

Genetic programming is combined with program analysis methods to repair bugs in off-the-
shelf legacy C programs. Fitness is defined using negative test cases that exercise the bug …

Debugging consumes significant time and effort in any major software development project.
Moreover, even after the root cause of a bug is identified, fixing the bug is non-trivial. Given …

Several automated program repair techniques have been proposed to reduce the time and
effort spent in bug-fixing. While these repair tools are designed to be generic such that they …

Automated program repair techniques use a buggy program and a partial specification
(typically a test suite) to produce a program variant that satisfies the specification. While prior …