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 …

Millions of open source projects with numerous bug fixes are available in code repositories.
This proliferation of software development histories can be leveraged to learn how to fix …

The problem of fixing errors in programs has attracted substantial interest over the years.
The key challenge for building an effective code fixing tool is to capture a wide range of …

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 …

Fix pattern-based patch generation is a promising direction in Automated Program Repair
(APR). Notably, it has been demonstrated to produce more acceptable and correct patches …

Millions of open-source projects with numerous bug fixes are available in code repositories.
This proliferation of software development histories can be leveraged to learn how to fix …

Benchmarks of bugs are essential to empirically evaluate automatic program repair tools. In
this paper, we present BEARS, a project for collecting and storing bugs into an extensible …

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 …