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A self-healing application brings itself into a stable state after a failure put the software into an unstable state. For such self-healing software application, finding fix for a previously unseen fault is a grand challenge. Asking the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-03-27 Mohammad Muztaba Fuad , Debzani Deb , Jinsuk Baek

We present a formal framework for repairing infinite-state, imperative, sequential programs, with (possibly recursive) procedures and multiple assertions; the framework can generate repaired programs by modifying the original erroneous…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Roopsha Samanta , Oswaldo Olivo , E. Allen Emerson

The increasing complexity of software has led to the steady growth of vulnerabilities. Vulnerability repair investigates how to fix software vulnerabilities. Manual vulnerability repair is labor-intensive and time-consuming because it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Yiwei Hu , Zhen Li , Kedie Shu , Shenghua Guan , Deqing Zou , Shouhuai Xu , Bin Yuan , Hai Jin

Correcting bugs using modern Automated Program Repair (APR) can be both time-consuming and resource-expensive. We describe a program repair approach that aims to improve the scalability of modern APR tools. The approach leverages program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Linas Vidziunas , David Binkley , Leon Moonen

Software debugging, and program repair are among the most time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks in software engineering that would benefit a lot from automation. In this paper, we propose a novel automated program repair approach based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Ehsan Mashhadi , Hadi Hemmati

Automated Program Repair (APR) improves developer productivity by saving debugging and bug-fixing time. While APR has been extensively explored for C/C++ and Java programs, there is little research on bugs in PHP programs due to the lack of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-23 K. D. Pramod , W. T. N. De Silva , W. U. K. Thabrew , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Sandareka Wickramanayake

Automated Program Repair (APR) is a vital area in software engineering aimed at generating automatic patches for vulnerable programs. While numerous techniques have been proposed for repairing classical programs, the realm of quantum…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Xiaoyu Guo , Jianjun Zhao , Pengzhan Zhao

Automatically fixing software bugs is a challenging task. While recent work showed that natural language context is useful in guiding bug-fixing models, the approach required prompting developers to provide this context, which was simulated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sheena Panthaplackel , Milos Gligoric , Junyi Jessy Li , Raymond J. Mooney

Data quality is paramount in today's data-driven world, especially in the era of generative AI. Dirty data with errors and inconsistencies usually leads to flawed insights, unreliable decision-making, and biased or low-quality outputs from…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wei Ni , Xiaoye Miao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yangyang Wu , Jianwei Yin

Defects4J is a large, peer-reviewed, structured dataset of real-world Java bugs. Each bug in Defects4J is provided with a test suite and at least one failing test case that triggers the bug. In this paper, we report on an experiment to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Matias Martinez , Thomas Durieux , Jifeng Xuan , Romain Sommerard , Martin Monperrus

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

Automated Program Repair (APR) attempts to patch software bugs and reduce manual debugging efforts. Very recently, with the advances in Large Language Models (LLMs), an increasing number of APR techniques have been proposed, facilitating…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Yang Xie , YuXiang Ma , Weisong Sun , Yun Yang , Zhenyu Chen

We propose, BanditRepair, a system that systematically explores and assesses a set of possible runtime patches. The system is grounded on so-called bandit algorithms, that are online machine learning algorithms, designed for constantly…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-25 Thomas Durieux , Youssef Hamadi , Martin Monperrus

We study the problem of semantic code repair, which can be broadly defined as automatically fixing non-syntactic bugs in source code. The majority of past work in semantic code repair assumed access to unit tests against which candidate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-10-31 Jacob Devlin , Jonathan Uesato , Rishabh Singh , Pushmeet Kohli

Automated program repair (APR) using deep learning techniques has become an important area of research in recent years, aiming to automatically generate bug-fixing patches that can improve software reliability and maintainability. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Reza Gharibi , Mohammad Hadi Sadreddini , Seyed Mostafa Fakhrahmad

Smart contracts are automated or self-enforcing contracts that can be used to exchange assets without having to place trust in third parties. Many commercial transactions use smart contracts due to their potential benefits in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xiao Liang Yu , Omar Al-Bataineh , David Lo , Abhik Roychoudhury

Automated Program Repair (APR) proposes bug fixes to aid developers in maintaining software. The state of the art in this domain focuses on LLMs, leveraging their strong capabilities to comprehend specifications in natural language and to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Viola Campos , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Adrian Ulges , Yannic Noller

Due to its potential to improve programmer productivity and software quality, automated program repair has been an active topic of research. Newer techniques harness neural networks to learn directly from examples of buggy programs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Marko Vasic , Aditya Kanade , Petros Maniatis , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh

Providing feedback on programming assignments is a tedious task for the instructor, and even impossible in large Massive Open Online Courses with thousands of students. Previous research has suggested that program repair techniques can be…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Sumit Gulwani , Ivan Radiček , Florian Zuleger

Automated debugging techniques have the potential to reduce developer effort in debugging, and have matured enough to be adopted by industry. However, one critical issue with existing techniques is that, while developers want rationales for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Sungmin Kang , Bei Chen , Shin Yoo , Jian-Guang Lou