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This study examined code issue detection and revision automation by integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) such as OpenAI's GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4o into software development workflows. A static code analysis framework detects issues such…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Seyed Moein Abtahi , Akramul Azim

Automatic Program Repair (APR) aims at fixing buggy source code with less manual debugging efforts, which plays a vital role in improving software reliability and development productivity. Recent APR works have achieved remarkable progress…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Wei Yuan , Quanjun Zhang , Tieke He , Chunrong Fang , Nguyen Quoc Viet Hung , Xiaodong Hao , Hongzhi Yin

In the research of automated program repair (APR), benchmark datasets consisting of known defects in combination with test suites that indicate the defects are of high importance. They allow for an evidence-based comparison of different APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Adam Krafczyk , Klaus Schmid

Version control system tools empower developers to independently work on their development tasks. These tools also facilitate the integration of changes through merging operations, and report textual conflicts. However, when developers…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Galileu Santos de Jesus , Paulo Borba , Rodrigo Bonifácio , Matheus Barbosa de Oliveira

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

Automated Program Repair has attracted significant research in recent years, leading to diverse techniques that focus on two main directions: search-based and semantic-based program repair. The former techniques often face challenges due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Abdulaziz Alhefdhi , Hoa Khanh Dam , Thanh Le-Cong , Bach Le , Aditya Ghose

Automatic program repair (APR) aims to reduce the manual efforts required to identify and fix errors in source code. Before the rise of LLM-based agents, a common strategy was to increase the number of generated patches, sometimes to the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Fernando Vallecillos Ruiz , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Data races are a real problem for parallel software, yet hard to detect. Sound predictive analysis observes a program execution and detects data races that exist in some other, unobserved execution. However, existing predictive analyses…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Kaan Genç , Jake Roemer , Yufan Xu , Michael D. Bond

Automated program repair (APR) is a technology that identifies and repairs bugs automatically. However, repairing multi-chunk bugs remains a long-standing and challenging problem because an APR technique must consider dependencies and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Jisung Kim , Byeongjung Lee

Automated Program Repair (APR) has benefited from the code understanding and generation capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). Existing feedback-based APR methods iteratively refine candidate patches using test execution feedback and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Linhao Wu , Yifei Pei , Zhen Yang , Kainan Li , Zhonghang Lu , Hao Tan , Xiran Lyu , Jia Li , Yizhou Chen , Pengyu Xue , Kunwu Zheng , Dan Hao

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

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

Go is a popular concurrent programming language thanks to its ability to efficiently combine concurrency and systems programming. In Go programs, a number of concurrency bugs can be caused by a mixture of data races and communication…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Julia Gabet , Nobuko Yoshida

Writing concurrent programs is highly error-prone due to the nondeterminism in interprocess communication. The most reliable indicators of errors in concurrency are data races, which are accesses to a shared resource that can be executed…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-11-06 Andreas Pavlogiannis

This paper presents a technique for automatically constructing a fix for buggy concurrent programs: given a concurrent program that does not satisfy user-provided assertions, we infer atomic blocks that fix the program. An atomic block…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Saurabh Joshi , Akash Lal

Data races are egregious parallel programming bugs on CPUs. They are even worse on GPUs due to the hierarchical thread and memory structure, which makes it possible to write code that is correctly synchronized within a thread group while…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-01-10 John Jacobson , Martin Burtscher , Ganesh Gopalakrishnan

Current automated program repair (APR) techniques are far from being practical and useful enough to be considered for realistic debugging. They rely on unrealistic assumptions including the requirement of a comprehensive suite of test cases…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Qi Xin , Haojun Wu , Steven P. Reiss , Jifeng Xuan

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

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

Programming is increasingly taught using block-based languages like Scratch. While the use of blocks prevents syntax errors, learners can still make semantic mistakes, requiring feedback and help. As teachers may be overwhelmed by help…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-18 Sebastian Schweikl , Gordon Fraser