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This paper introduces an automatic debugging framework that relies on model-based reasoning techniques to locate faults in programs. In particular, model-based diagnosis, together with an abstract interpretation based conflict detection…

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Automated program repair is an emerging technology which consists of a suite of techniques to automatically fix bugs or vulnerabilities in programs. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey of the state of the art in program repair.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Xiang Gao , Yannic Noller , Abhik Roychoudhury

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

Programs expecting structured inputs often consist of both a syntactic analysis stage, which parses raw input, and a semantic analysis stage, which conducts checks on the parsed input and executes the core logic of the program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Rohan Padhye , Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen , Mike Papadakis , Yves Le Traon

Managing large numbers of incoming bug reports and finding the most critical issues in hardware development is time consuming, but crucial in order to reduce development costs. In this paper, we present an approach to predict the time to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thi Thu Hang Do , Markus Dobler , Niklas Kühl

Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs without human intervention and template-based APR has been widely investigated with promising results. However, it is challenging for template-based APR to select the appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Tongke Zhang , Bowen Yu , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen

Automated issue fixing is a critical task in software debugging and has recently garnered significant attention from academia and industry. However, existing fixing techniques predominantly focus on the repair phase, often overlooking the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jianming Chang , Xin Zhou , Lulu Wang , David Lo , Bixin Li

Context: Software performance is a critical non-functional requirement, appearing in many fields such as mission critical applications, financial, and real time systems. In this work we focused on early detection of performance bugs; our…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-02-28 Sokratis Tsakiltsidis , Andriy Miranskyy , Elie Mazzawi

Automated program repair is an emerging technology that seeks to automatically rectify bugs and vulnerabilities using learning, search, and semantic analysis. Trust in automatically generated patches is necessary for achieving greater…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-14 Yannic Noller , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Xiang Gao , Abhik Roychoudhury

With the continuous growth in the scale and complexity of software systems, defect remediation has become increasingly difficult and costly. Automated defect prediction tools can proactively identify software changes prone to defects within…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Liguo Ji , Chenchen Li , Shenglin Wang , Furui Zhan

Bug detection and prevention is one of the most important goals of software quality assurance. Nowadays, many of the major problems faced by developers can be detected or even fixed fully or partially with automatic tools. However, recent…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-18 Balázs Mosolygó , Norbert Vándor , Gábor Antal , Péter Hegedűs

Just-in-time defect prediction (JIT-DP) aims to predict the likelihood of code changes resulting in software defects at an early stage. Although code change metrics and semantic features have enhanced prediction accuracy, prior research has…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Feifei Niu , Junqian Shao , Christoph Mayr-Dorn , Liguo Huang , Wesley K. G. Assunção , Chuanyi Li , Jidong Ge , Alexander Egyed

Distributed training is essential for scaling the training of large neural network models, such as large language models (LLMs), across thousands of GPUs. However, the complexity of distributed training programs makes them particularly…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Haitian Jiang , Shaowei Zhu , Zhen Zhang , Zhenyu Song , Xinwei Fu , Zhen Jia , Yida Wang , Jinyang Li

In the domain of code generation, self-debugging is crucial. It allows LLMs to refine their generated code based on execution feedback. This is particularly important because generating correct solutions in one attempt proves challenging…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Nan Jiang , Xiaopeng Li , Shiqi Wang , Qiang Zhou , Soneya Binta Hossain , Baishakhi Ray , Varun Kumar , Xiaofei Ma , Anoop Deoras

The complexity of modern software has led to a drastic increase in the time and cost associated with detecting and rectifying software bugs. In response, researchers have explored various methods to automatically generate fixes for buggy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Md Mahim Anjum Haque , Wasi Uddin Ahmad , Ismini Lourentzou , Chris Brown

In large-scale software systems, there are often no fully-fledged bug reports with human-written descriptions when an error occurs. In this case, developers rely on stack traces, i.e., series of function calls that led to the error. Since…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Egor Shibaev , Denis Sushentsev , Yaroslav Golubev , Aleksandr Khvorov

Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to reduce manual debugging efforts for developers and improve software reliability. While conventional search-based techniques typically rely on heuristic rules or a redundancy assumption to mine…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-13 Weishi Wang , Yue Wang , Shafiq Joty , Steven C. H. Hoi

Program repair research has made tremendous progress over the last few years, and software development bots are now being invented to help developers gain productivity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of a " program repair bot "…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Simon Urli , Zhongxing Yu , Lionel Seinturier , Martin Monperrus

Software bugs are prevalent in modern software systems and notoriously hard to debug manually. Therefore, a large body of research efforts have been dedicated to automated software debugging, including both automated fault localization and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Yiling Lou , Ali Ghanbari , Xia Li , Lingming Zhang , Dan Hao , Lu Zhang

Bug fixing is a complex and time-consuming task in software development. Bug localization research tends to focus on the accuracy of automated tools that suggest source code files for developers to look at. However, little is known about…

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