Repairnator is a bot. It constantly monitors software bugs discovered during continuous integration of open-source software and tries to fix them automatically. If it succeeds to synthesize a valid patch, Repairnator proposes the patch to the human developers, disguised under a fake human identity. To date, Repairnator has been able to produce 5 patches that were accepted by the human developers and permanently merged in the code base. This is a milestone for human-competitiveness in software engineering research on automatic program repair.
@article{arxiv.1810.05806,
title = {Human-competitive Patches in Automatic Program Repair with Repairnator},
author = {Martin Monperrus and Simon Urli and Thomas Durieux and Matias Martinez and Benoit Baudry and Lionel Seinturier},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.05806},
year = {2018}
}