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 …

At ICSE'2013, there was the first session ever dedicated to automatic program repair. In this
session, Kim et al. presented PAR, a novel template-based approach for fixing Java bugs …

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 …

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 …

The effectiveness of search-based automated program repair is limited in the number of
correct patches that can be successfully generated. There are two causes of such limitation …

Static analyzers help find bugs early by warning about recurring bug categories. While fixing
these bugs still remains a mostly manual task in practice, we observe that fixes for a specific …

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 …

We propose Nopol, an approach to automatic repair of buggy conditional statements (ie, if-
then-else statements). This approach takes a buggy program as well as a test suite as input …

At the heart of software evolution is a sequence of edit actions, called an edit script, made to
a source code file. Since software systems are stored version by version, the edit script has …

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 …