A critical review on the evaluation of automated program repair systems

K Liu, L Li, A Koyuncu, D Kim, Z Liu, J Klein… - Journal of Systems and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Automated Program Repair (APR) has attracted significant attention from software
engineering research and practice communities in the last decade. Several teams have …

Cure: Code-aware neural machine translation for automatic program repair

N Jiang, T Lutellier, L Tan - 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to improve software reliability. Recently, neural
machine translation (NMT) techniques have been used to automatically fix software bugs …

A syntax-guided edit decoder for neural program repair

Q Zhu, Z Sun, Y **ao, W Zhang, K Yuan… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Automated Program Repair (APR) helps improve the efficiency of software development and
maintenance. Recent APR techniques use deep learning, particularly the encoder-decoder …

Evolving paradigms in automated program repair: Taxonomy, challenges, and opportunities

K Huang, Z Xu, S Yang, H Sun, X Li, Z Yan… - ACM Computing …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Coconut: combining context-aware neural translation models using ensemble for program repair

T Lutellier, HV Pham, L Pang, Y Li, M Wei… - Proceedings of the 29th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
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 …

Neural program repair with execution-based backpropagation

H Ye, M Martinez, M Monperrus - … of the 44th international conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Neural machine translation (NMT) architectures have achieved promising results for
automatic program repair. Yet, they have the limitation of generating low-quality patches (eg …

A survey of learning-based automated program repair

Q Zhang, C Fang, Y Ma, W Sun, Z Chen - ACM Transactions on Software …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs automatically and plays a crucial
role in software development and maintenance. With the recent advances in deep learning …

A survey on machine learning techniques for source code analysis

T Sharma, M Kechagia, S Georgiou, R Tiwari… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
The advancements in machine learning techniques have encouraged researchers to apply
these techniques to a myriad of software engineering tasks that use source code analysis …

Knod: Domain knowledge distilled tree decoder for automated program repair

N Jiang, T Lutellier, Y Lou, L Tan… - 2023 IEEE/ACM 45th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Automated Program Repair (APR) improves soft-ware reliability by generating patches for a
buggy program automatically. Recent APR techniques leverage deep learning (DL) to build …

Explainable automated debugging via large language model-driven scientific debugging

S Kang, B Chen, S Yoo, JG Lou - Empirical Software Engineering, 2025 - Springer
Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in
debugging. However, while developers want rationales for the provided automatic …