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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

Reliable evaluation is crucial for advancing Automated Program Repair (APR), but prevailing benchmarks rely on execution-based evaluation methods (unit test pass@k), which fail to capture true patch validity. Determining validity can…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Sherry Shi , Renyao Wei , Michele Tufano , José Cambronero , Runxiang Cheng , Franjo Ivančić , Pat Rondon

Automated program repair (APR) has attracted great research attention, and various techniques have been proposed. Search-based APR is one of the most important categories among these techniques. Existing researches focus on the design of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-07-18 Ming Wen , Junjie Chen , Rongxin Wu , Dan Hao , Shing-Chi Cheung

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

As software systems evolve, patches may unintentionally alter program behavior. Validating patches against their intended semantics is difficult due to incomplete regression tests and informal, non-executable natural language (NL)…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Toby Murray , Michael Pradel , Cristian Cadar

Recent studies have demonstrated promising potential of ChatGPT for various text annotation and classification tasks. However, ChatGPT is non-deterministic which means that, as with human coders, identical input can lead to different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Michael V. Reiss

At ICSE'2013, there was the first session ever dedicated to automatic program repair. In this session, Kim et al. presented PAR, a novel template-based approach for fixing Java bugs. We strongly disagree with key points of this paper. Our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-11 Martin Monperrus

Automated LLM vulnerability scanners are increasingly used to assess security risks by measuring different attack type success rates (ASR). Yet the validity of these measurements hinges on an often-overlooked component: the evaluator who…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Lidor Erez , Omer Hofman , Tamir Nizri , Roman Vainshtein

Background. Developers use Automated Static Analysis Tools (ASATs) to control for potential quality issues in source code, including defects and technical debt. Tool vendors have devised quite a number of tools, which makes it harder for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Valentina Lenarduzzi , Savanna Lujan , Nyyti Saarimaki , Fabio Palomba

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a task to automatically generate patches for the buggy code. However, most research focuses on generating correct patches while ignoring the consistency between the fixed code and the original buggy code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Zhenlong Dai , Bingrui Chen , Zhuoluo Zhao , Xiu Tang , Sai Wu , Chang Yao , Zhipeng Gao , Jingyuan Chen

Bug fixing is generally a manually-intensive task. However, recent work has proposed the idea of automated program repair, which aims to repair (at least a subset of) bugs in different ways such as code mutation, etc. Following in the same…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-05 Hideaki Hata , Emad Shihab , Graham Neubig

Context: Contemporary code review tools are a popular choice for software quality assurance. Using these tools, reviewers are able to post a linkage between two patches during a review discussion. Large development teams that use a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Dong Wang , Raula Gaikovina Kula , Takashi Ishio , Kenichi Matsumoto

We introduce the task of automatically revising scientific papers based on peer feedback and release ARIES, a dataset of review comments and their corresponding paper edits. The data is drawn from real reviewer-author interactions from…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Mike D'Arcy , Alexis Ross , Erin Bransom , Bailey Kuehl , Jonathan Bragg , Tom Hope , Doug Downey

A long-standing open challenge for automated program repair is the overfitting problem, which is caused by having insufficient or incomplete specifications to validate whether a generated patch is correct or not. Most available repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Anastasiia Grishina , Leon Moonen

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

Bug reports are essential for developers to confirm software problems, investigate their causes, and validate fixes. Unfortunately, reports often miss important information or are written unclearly, which can cause delays, increased issue…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Junayed Mahmud , Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Andrian Marcus

Current automated program repair (APR) techniques are far from being practical and useful enough to be considered for realistic debugging. They rely on unrealistic assumptions including the requirement of a comprehensive suite of test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Qi Xin , Haojun Wu , Steven P. Reiss , Jifeng Xuan

In supporting the development of high-quality software, especially necessary in the era of LLMs, automated program repair (APR) tools aim to improve code quality by automatically addressing violations detected by static analysis profilers.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Sumudu Liyanage , Sherlock A. Licorish , Markus Wagner , Stephen G. MacDonell

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

Automated Program Repair (APR) can help developers automatically generate patches for bugs. Due to the impressive performance obtained using Large Pre-Trained Language Models (LLMs) on many code related tasks, researchers have started to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-01 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Lingming Zhang