BugsInPy: A Database of Existing Bugs in Python Programs to Enable Controlled Testing and Debugging Studies
Abstract
The 2019 edition of Stack Overflow developer survey highlights that, for the first time, Python outperformed Java in terms of popularity. The gap between Python and Java further widened in the 2020 edition of the survey. Unfortunately, despite the rapid increase in Python's popularity, there are not many testing and debugging tools that are designed for Python. This is in stark contrast with the abundance of testing and debugging tools for Java. Thus, there is a need to push research on tools that can help Python developers. One factor that contributed to the rapid growth of Java testing and debugging tools is the availability of benchmarks. A popular benchmark is the Defects4J benchmark; its initial version contained 357 real bugs from 5 real-world Java programs. Each bug comes with a test suite that can expose the bug. Defects4J has been used by hundreds of testing and debugging studies and has helped to push the frontier of research in these directions. In this project, inspired by Defects4J, we create another benchmark database and tool that contain 493 real bugs from 17 real-world Python programs. We hope our benchmark can help catalyze future work on testing and debugging tools that work on Python programs.
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@article{arxiv.2401.15481,
title = {BugsInPy: A Database of Existing Bugs in Python Programs to Enable Controlled Testing and Debugging Studies},
author = {Ratnadira Widyasari and Sheng Qin Sim and Camellia Lok and Haodi Qi and Jack Phan and Qijin Tay and Constance Tan and Fiona Wee and Jodie Ethelda Tan and Yuheng Yieh and Brian Goh and Ferdian Thung and Hong Jin Kang and Thong Hoang and David Lo and Eng Lieh Ouh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.15481},
year = {2024}
}