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This paper describes our approach to automated program repair. We combine various techniques from the literature to achieve this. Our experiments show that our approach performs better than other techniques on standard benchmarks. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Mahinthan Chandramohan , Jovan Jancic , Yuntong Zhang , Padmanabhan Krishnan

Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs) have been used in many Automated Program Repair (APR) systems, primarily for validating promising fixes and aiding fix generation. In practice, when developers submit a patch, they often implement the BRT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Runxiang Cheng , Michele Tufano , José Cambronero , Renyao Wei , Sherry Shi , Grant Uy , Pat Rondon , Franjo Ivančić

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate patches for buggy programs. Recent APR work has been focused on leveraging modern Large Language Models (LLMs) to directly generate patches for APR. Such LLM-based APR tools work…

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

Automated generation of feedback on programming assignments holds significant benefits for programming education, especially when it comes to advanced assignments. Automated Program Repair techniques, especially Large Language Model based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Qianhui Zhao , Fang Liu , Li Zhang , Yang Liu , Zhen Yan , Zhenghao Chen , Yufei Zhou , Jing Jiang , Ge Li

AI-driven program repair uses AI models to repair buggy software by producing patches. Rapid advancements in AI surely impact state-of-the-art performance of program repair. Yet, grasping this progress requires frequent and standardized…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-28 André Silva , Martin Monperrus

Real bug fixes found in open source repositories seem to be the perfect source for learning to localize and repair real bugs. However, the absence of large scale bug fix collections has made it difficult to effectively exploit real bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Cedric Richter , Heike Wehrheim

Bug fixing and code generation have been core research topics in software development for many years. The recent explosive growth in Large Language Models has completely transformed these spaces, putting in reach incredibly powerful tools…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Avinash Anand , Akshit Gupta , Nishchay Yadav , Shaurya Bajaj

Retrieving the correct set of files from a large codebase is a crucial step in Automated Program Repair (APR). High recall is necessary to ensure that the relevant files are included, but simply increasing the number of retrieved files…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mahir Labib Dihan , Faria Binta Awal , Md. Ishrak Ahsan

The growing use of large language models (LLMs) has increased the importance of natural language (NL) in software engineering. However, ambiguity of NL can harm software quality, as unclear problem descriptions may lead to incorrect program…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Haoxiang Jia , Robbie Morris , He Ye , Federica Sarro , Sergey Mechtaev

Bug triaging is a critical task in any software development project. It entails triagers going over a list of open bugs, deciding whether each is required to be addressed, and, if so, which developer should fix it. However, the manual bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Hadi Jahanshahi , Mucahit Cevik , Kianoush Mousavi , Ayşe Başar

Fault localization is a crucial step of automated program repair, because accurately identifying program locations that are most closely implicated with a fault greatly affects the effectiveness of the patching process. An ideal fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-03 Tongtong Xu , Liushan Chen , Yu Pei , Tian Zhang , Minxue Pan , Carlo A. Furia

Long patch validation time is a limiting factor for automated program repair (APR). Though the duality between patch validation and mutation testing is recognized, so far there exists no study of systematically adapting mutation testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yuan-An Xiao , Chenyang Yang , Bo Wang , Yingfei Xiong

Learning-based automated vulnerability repair (AVR) techniques that utilize fine-tuned language models have shown promise in generating vulnerability patches. However, questions remain about their ability to repair unseen vulnerabilities.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Woorim Han , Yeongjun Kwak , Miseon Yu , Kyeongmin Kim , Younghan Lee , Hyungon Moon , Yunheung Paek

Large language models (LLM) have proven to be effective at automated program repair (APR). However, using LLMs can be costly, with companies invoicing users by the number of tokens. In this paper, we propose CigaR, the first LLM-based APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Dávid Hidvégi , Khashayar Etemadi , Sofia Bobadilla , Martin Monperrus

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

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Zhongxing Yu , Matias Martinez , Benjamin Danglot , Thomas Durieux , Martin Monperrus

In recent years, Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques specifically designed for quantum programs have been proposed. However, existing approaches often suffer from low repair success rates or poor understandability of the generated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Chihiro Yoshida , Yuta Ishimoto , Olivier Nourry , Masanari Kondo , Makoto Matsushita , Yasutaka Kamei , Yoshiki Higo

The rapid advancement of bug-finding techniques has led to the discovery of more vulnerabilities than developers can reasonably fix, creating an urgent need for effective Automated Program Repair (APR) methods. However, the complexity of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Han Zheng , Ilia Shumailov , Tianqi Fan , Aiden Hall , Mathias Payer

LLMs have garnered considerable attention for their potential to streamline Automated Program Repair (APR). LLM-based approaches can either insert the correct code or directly generate patches when provided with buggy methods. However, most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qiong Feng , Xiaotian Ma , Jiayi Sheng , Ziyuan Feng , Wei Song , Peng Liang

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

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Matias Martinez , Thomas Durieux , Romain Sommerard , Jifeng Xuan , Martin Monperrus

Bug-fix benchmarks are fundamental in advancing various sub-fields of software engineering such as automatic program repair (APR) and fault localization (FL). A good benchmark must include recent examples that accurately reflect…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Nuno Saavedra , André Silva , Martin Monperrus