English

Repairnator patches programs automatically

Software Engineering 2022-05-05 v2

Abstract

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 in synthesizing a valid patch, Repairnator proposes the patch to the human developers, disguised under a fake human identity. To date, Repairnator has been able to producepatches that were accepted by the human developers and permanently merged into the code base. This is a milestone for human-competitiveness in software engineering research on automatic program repair.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1910.06247,
  title  = {Repairnator patches programs automatically},
  author = {Martin Monperrus and Simon Urli and Thomas Durieux and Matias Martinez and Benoit Baudry and Lionel Seinturier},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.06247},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1810.05806

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:43:12.199Z