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Properly benchmarking Automated Program Repair (APR) systems should contribute to the development and adoption of the research outputs by practitioners. To that end, the research community must ensure that it reaches significant milestones…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Kui Liu , Anil Koyuncu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Dongsun Kim , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon

Automated Program Repair (APR) has emerged as a promising paradigm for reducing debugging time and improving the overall efficiency of software development. Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated their potential…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Shunyu Liu , Guangdong Bai , Mark Utting , Guowei Yang

Generate-and-validate (G&V) automated program repair (APR) techniques have been extensively studied during the past decade. Meanwhile, such techniques can be extremely time-consuming due to manipulation of the program code to fabricate a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Lingchao Chen , Lingming Zhang

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) is designed to automate the process of bug-fixing. In recent years, thanks to the rapid development of large language models (LLMs), automated repair has achieved remarkable progress. Advanced APR techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Aolin Chen , Haojun Wu , Qi Xin , Steven P. Reiss , Jifeng Xuan

Automated Program Repair (APR) aspires to automatically generate patches for an input buggy program. Traditional APR tools typically focus on specific bug types and fixes through the use of templates, heuristics, and formal specifications.…

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

With the rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs), traditional Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques have undergone significant transformation. Training-free approaches, such as zero-shot and few-shot prompting, are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Haichuan Hu , Ye Shang , Weifeng Sun , Quanjun Zhang

Automatic Program Repair (APR) endeavors to autonomously rectify issues within specific projects, which generally encompasses three categories of tasks: bug resolution, new feature development, and feature enhancement. Despite extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Jiuang Zhao , Donghao Yang , Li Zhang , Xiaoli Lian , Zitian Yang , Fang Liu

Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a brilliant idea: when detecting a bug, also provide suggestions for correcting the program. Progress towards that goal is hindered by the absence of a common frame of reference for the multiplicity of APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Victoria Kananchuk , Ilgiz Mustafin , Bertrand Meyer

We revisit the performance of template-based APR to build comprehensive knowledge about the effectiveness of fix patterns, and to highlight the importance of complementary steps such as fault localization or donor code retrieval. To that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Kui Liu , Anil Koyuncu , Dongsun Kim , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

APR (Automated Program Repair) aims to automatically locate program defects, generate patches and validate the repairs. Existing techniques for APR are often combined with LLMs (Large Language Models), which leverages the code-related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Haichuan Hu , Xiaochen Xie , Quanjun Zhang

Despite significant advances in automatic program repair (APR)techniques over the past decade, practical deployment remains an elusive goal. One of the important challenges in this regard is the general inability of current APR techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-24 Seemanta Saha , Ripon K. Saha , Mukul R. Prasad

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

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

Background: Testing and validation of the semantic correctness of patches provided by tools for Automated Program Repairs (APR) has received a lot of attention. Yet, the eventual acceptance or rejection of suggested patches for real world…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-19 Aurora Papotti , Ranindya Paramitha , Fabio Massacci

Students often make mistakes on their introductory programming assignments as part of their learning process. Unfortunately, providing custom repairs for these mistakes can require a substantial amount of time and effort from class…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Jialu Zhang , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Ruzica Piskac , Gustavo Soares , Gust Verbruggen

Recently, we can notice a transition to data-driven techniques in Automated Program Repair (APR), in particular towards deep neural networks. This entails training on hundreds of thousands or even millions of non-executable code fragments.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Julian Aron Prenner , Romain Robbes

The gap between the trepidation of program reliability and the expense of repairs underscores the indispensability of Automated Program Repair (APR). APR is instrumental in transforming vulnerable programs into more robust ones, bolstering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yuze Zhao , Zhenya Huang , Yixiao Ma , Rui Li , Kai Zhang , Hao Jiang , Qi Liu , Linbo Zhu , Yu Su

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

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