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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 also come to the fore. Software defect has become an important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Kai Huang , Zhengzi Xu , Su Yang , Hongyu Sun , Xuejun Li , Zheng Yan , Yuqing Zhang

Large language models (LLMs) and LLM-based Agents have been applied to fix bugs automatically, demonstrating the capability in addressing software defects by engaging in development environment interaction, iterative validation and code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Xiangxin Meng , Zexiong Ma , Pengfei Gao , Chao Peng

OpenID Connect has revolutionized online authentication based on single sign-on (SSO) by providing a secure and convenient method for accessing multiple services with a single set of credentials. Despite its widespread adoption, critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Tamjid Al Rahat , Yanju Chen , Yu Feng , Yuan Tian

Realistic benchmarks of reproducible bugs and fixes are vital to good experimental evaluation of debugging and testing approaches. However, there is no suitable benchmark suite that can systematically evaluate the debugging and testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-22 Pengzhan Zhao , Jianjun Zhao , Zhongtao Miao , Shuhan Lan

Automated Vulnerability Repair (AVR) systems, especially those leveraging large language models (LLMs), have demonstrated promising results in patching vulnerabilities -- that is, if we trust their patch validation methodology. Ground-truth…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zheng Yu , Wenxuan Shi , Xinqian Sun , Zheyun Feng , Meng Xu , Xinyu Xing

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to help developers automatically patch software bugs. However, current state-of-the-art traditional and learning-based APR techniques face the problem of limited patch variety, failing to fix complicated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Yuxiang Wei , Lingming Zhang

Machine learning-based program analyses have recently shown the promise of integrating formal and probabilistic reasoning towards aiding software development. However, in the absence of large annotated corpora, training these analyses is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Miltiadis Allamanis , Henry Jackson-Flux , Marc Brockschmidt

Due to the difficulty of repairing defect, many research efforts have been devoted into automatic defect repair. Given a buggy program that fails some test cases, a typical automatic repair technique tries to modify the program to make all…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Yingfei Xiong , Jie Wang , Runfa Yan , Jiachen Zhang , Shi Han , Gang Huang , Lu Zhang

Benchmarks of bugs are essential to empirically evaluate automatic program repair tools. In this paper, we present Bears, a project for collecting and storing bugs into an extensible bug benchmark for automatic repair studies in Java. The…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Fernanda Madeiral , Simon Urli , Marcelo Maia , Martin Monperrus

Well-designed and publicly available datasets of bugs are an invaluable asset to advance research fields such as fault localization and program repair as they allow directly and fairly comparison between competing techniques and also the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Victor Sobreira , Thomas Durieux , Fernanda Madeiral , Martin Monperrus , Marcelo A. Maia

Among the many different kinds of program repair techniques, one widely studied family of techniques is called test suite based repair. Test-suites are in essence input-output specifications and are therefore typically inadequate for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-02 Zhongxing Yu , Matias Martinez , Benjamin Danglot , Thomas Durieux , Martin Monperrus

Software bugs pose an ever-present concern for developers, and patching such bugs requires a considerable amount of costs through complex operations. In contrast, introducing bugs can be an effortless job, in that even a simple mutation can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Jinhan Kim , Jongchan Park , Shin Yoo

Current state-of-the-art automatic software repair (ASR) techniques rely heavily on incomplete specifications, e.g., test suites, to generate repairs. This, however, may render ASR tools to generate incorrect repairs that do not generalize.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Xuan Bach D. Le , Lingfeng Bao , David Lo , Xin Xia , Shanping Li

Large Language Models (LLMs) have been gaining increasing attention and demonstrated promising performance across a variety of Software Engineering (SE) tasks, such as Automated Program Repair (APR), code summarization, and code completion.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Quanjun Zhang , Tongke Zhang , Juan Zhai , Chunrong Fang , Bowen Yu , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen

It is widely recognized that program repair tools need to have a high precision to be useful, i.e., the generated patches need to have a high probability to be correct. However, it is fundamentally difficult to ensure the correctness of the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Jingjing Liang , Ruyi Ji , Jiajun Jiang , Yiling Lou , Yingfei Xiong , Gang Huang

Automatic detection of software bugs is a critical task in software security. Many static tools that can help detect bugs have been proposed. While these static bug detectors are mainly evaluated on general software projects call into…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Nima Shiri harzevili , Jiho Shin , Junjie Wang , Song Wang , Nachiappan Nagappan

This study explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating the repair of C programs. We present a framework that integrates spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL), runtime feedback, and Chain-of-Thought-structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mahdi Farzandway , Fatemeh Ghassemi

Automated program repair is already deployed in industry, but concerns remain about repair quality. Recent research has shown that one of the main reasons repair tools produce incorrect (but seemingly correct) patches is imperfect fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manish Motwani , Yuriy Brun

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 article considers all kinds of repairs. First, it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Martin Monperrus

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 (DL), an increasing number of APR techniques have been…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Yuxiang Ma , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen