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Program repair techniques offer cost-saving benefits for debugging within software development and programming education scenarios. With the proven effectiveness of Large Language Models (LLMs) in code-related tasks, researchers have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Boyang Yang , Haoye Tian , Weiguo Pian , Haoran Yu , Haitao Wang , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Shunfu Jin

In this paper, we present a technique for repairing data race errors in parallel programs written in C/C++ and Fortran using the OpenMP API. Our technique can also remove barriers that are deemed unnecessary for correctness. We implement…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Utpal Bora , Saurabh Joshi , Gautam Muduganti , Ramakrishna Upadrasta

Fuzz testing (fuzzing) is a well-known method for exposing bugs/vulnerabilities in software systems. Popular fuzzers, such as AFL, use a biased random search over the domain of program inputs, where 100s or 1000s of inputs (test cases) are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Yuntong Zhang , Ridwan Shariffdeen , Gregory J. Duck , Jiaqi Tan , Abhik Roychoudhury

Automated program repair (APR) aims to automatize the process of repairing software bugs in order to reduce the cost of maintaining software programs. Moreover, the success (given by the accuracy metric) of APR approaches has increased in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Matias Martinez , Silverio Martínez-Fernández , Xavier Franch

In recent years, Large language model-powered Automated Program Repair (LAPR) techniques have achieved state-of-the-art bug-fixing performance and have been pervasively applied and studied in both industry and academia. Nonetheless, LLMs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Pengyu Xue , Linhao Wu , Zhen Yang , Zhongxing Yu , Zhi Jin , Ge Li , Yan Xiao , Shuo Liu , Xinyi Li , Hongyi Lin , Jingwen Wu

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) attempts to reduce manual debugging efforts and plays a vital role in software maintenance. Despite remarkable progress, APR is still limited in generating overfitting patches, i.e., patches passing available…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Quanjun Zhang , Ye Shang , Haichuan Hu , Chunrong Fang , Zhenyu Chen , Liang Xiao

Among areas of software engineering where AI techniques -- particularly, Large Language Models -- seem poised to yield dramatic improvements, an attractive candidate is Automatic Program Repair (APR), the production of satisfactory…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Li Huang , Ilgiz Mustafin , Marco Piccioni , Alessandro Schena , Reto Weber , Bertrand Meyer

We consider the problem of learning to repair programs from diagnostic feedback (e.g., compiler error messages). Program repair is challenging for two reasons: First, it requires reasoning and tracking symbols across source code and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-07-01 Michihiro Yasunaga , Percy Liang

Measuring plagiarism in programming assignments is an essential task to the educational procedure. This paper discusses the methods of plagiarism and its detection in introductory programming course assignments written in C++. A small…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Muhammad Humayoun , Muhammad Adnan Hashmi , Ali Hanzala Khan

Introductory Computer Science classes are important for laying the foundation for advanced programming courses. However, students without prior programming experience may find these courses challenging, leading to difficulties in…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jesse McDonald , Scott Robertson , Anthony Peruma

Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques have drawn wide attention from both academia and industry. Meanwhile, one main limitation with the current state-of-the-art APR tools is that patches passing all the original tests are not…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Jun Yang , Yuehan Wang , Yiling Lou , Ming Wen , Lingming Zhang

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

Automatic Program Repair (APR) techniques can promisingly help reducing the cost of debugging. Many relevant APR techniques follow the generate-and-validate approach, that is, the faulty program is iteratively modified with different change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Davide Ginelli , Matias Martinez , Leonardo Mariani , Martin Monperrus

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

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

This paper presents a novel methodology for enhancing Automated Program Repair (APR) through synthetic data generation utilizing Large Language Models (LLMs). Current APR systems are constrained by the limited availability of high-quality…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-31 David de-Fitero-Dominguez , Antonio Garcia-Cabot , Eva Garcia-Lopez

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

Large language model (LLM)-driven automated program repair (APR) has advanced rapidly, but most methods remain code-centric: they directly rewrite source code and thereby risk hallucinated, behaviorally inconsistent fixes. This limitation…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Taohong Zhu , Lucas C. Cordeiro , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Youcheng Sun

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
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