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Automated program repair has emerged as a powerful technique to mitigate the impact of software bugs on system reliability and user experience. This paper introduces RepairAgent, the first work to address the program repair challenge…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Islem Bouzenia , Premkumar Devanbu , Michael Pradel

Automatic program repair (APR) has recently gained attention because it proposes to fix software defects with no human intervention. To automatically fix defects, most APR tools use the developer-written tests to (a) localize the defect,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Manish Motwani

Automated program repair is a crucial task for improving the efficiency of software developers. Recently, neural-based techniques have demonstrated significant promise in generating correct patches for buggy code snippets. However, most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Yuwei Zhang , Ge Li , Zhi Jin , Ying Xing

We propose a method combining machine learning with a static analysis tool (i.e. Infer) to automatically repair source code. Machine Learning methods perform well for producing idiomatic source code. However, their output is sometimes…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Ruba Mutasim , Gabriel Synnaeve , David Pichardie , Baptiste Rozière

Software development life cycle is profoundly influenced by bugs: their introduction, identification, and eventual resolution account for a significant portion of software cost. This has motivated software engineering researchers and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Matthew Jin , Syed Shahriar , Michele Tufano , Xin Shi , Shuai Lu , Neel Sundaresan , Alexey Svyatkovskiy

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

Various automated program repair (APR) techniques have been proposed to fix bugs automatically in the last decade. Although recent researches have made significant progress on the effectiveness and efficiency, it is still unclear how APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Quanjun Zhang , Yuan Zhao , Weisong Sun , Chunrong Fang , Ziyuan Wang , Lingming Zhang

Software auditing is an increasingly critical task in the era of rapid code generation. While LLM-based auditors have demonstrated strong potential, their effectiveness remains limited by misalignment with the highly complex,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jinyao Guo , Chengpeng Wang , Dominic Deluca , Jinjie Liu , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

This paper presents a novel end-to-end approach to program repair based on sequence-to-sequence learning. We devise, implement, and evaluate a system, called SequenceR, for fixing bugs based on sequence-to-sequence learning on source code.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-09-12 Zimin Chen , Steve Kommrusch , Michele Tufano , Louis-Noël Pouchet , Denys Poshyvanyk , Martin Monperrus

Context: Bug bisection is a common technique used to identify a revision that introduces a bug or indirectly fixes a bug, and often involves executing multiple revisions of a project to determine whether the bug is present within the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching Hang Mak , Shing-Chi Cheung

Incorrectly labelled test cases can adversely affect the training process of human-in-the-loop oracle learning tech-niques. This paper introduces ISONOISE, a technique designed to identify such mislabelled test cases introduced during…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Charaka Geethal Kapugama

Research in automatic program repair has shown that real bugs can be automatically fixed. However, there are several challenges involved in such a task that are not yet fully addressed. As an example, consider that a test-suite-based repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Fernanda Madeiral , Thomas Durieux

In software development, fixing bugs is an important task that is time consuming and cost-sensitive. While many approaches have been proposed to automatically detect and patch software code, the strategies are limited to a set of identified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Timely and high-quality feedback is essential for effective learning in programming courses; yet, providing such support at scale remains a challenge. While AI-based systems offer scalable and immediate help, their responses can…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Tung Phung , Heeryung Choi , Mengyan Wu , Christopher Brooks , Sumit Gulwani , Adish Singla

OpenAI's Codex, a GPT-3 like model trained on a large code corpus, has made headlines in and outside of academia. Given a short user-provided description, it is capable of synthesizing code snippets that are syntactically and semantically…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Julian Aron Prenner , Romain Robbes

Neural network-based techniques for automated program repair are becoming increasingly effective. Despite their success, little is known about why they succeed or fail, and how their way of reasoning about the code to repair compares to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Dominik Huber , Matteo Paltenghi , Michael Pradel

As neural theorem provers become increasingly agentic, the ability to interpret and act on compiler feedback is critical. However, existing Lean datasets consist almost exclusively of correct proofs, offering little supervision for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Evan Wang , Simon Chess , Daniel Lee , Siyuan Ge , Ajit Mallavarapu , Jarod Alper , Vasily Ilin

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

Automatic program repair papers tend to repeatedly use the same benchmarks. This poses a threat to the external validity of the findings of the program repair research community. In this paper, we perform an empirical study of automatic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-29 He Ye , Matias Martinez , Thomas Durieux , Martin Monperrus

The current article is an interdisciplinary attempt to decipher automatic program repair processes. The review is done by the manner typical to human science known as diffraction. We attempt to spot a gap in the literature of self-healing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-06 S. Amirhossein Mousavi , Donya Azizi Babani , Francesco Flammini