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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

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

Automated Program Repair (APR) seeks to automatically correct software bugs without requiring human intervention. However, existing tools tend to generate patches that satisfy test cases without fixing the underlying bug, those are known as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Marcos Fuster-Pena , David de-Fitero-Dominguez , Antonio Garcia-Cabot , Eva Garcia-Lopez

Security vulnerability repair is a difficult task that is in dire need of automation. Two groups of techniques have shown promise: (1) large code language models (LLMs) that have been pre-trained on source code for tasks such as code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Yi Wu , Nan Jiang , Hung Viet Pham , Thibaud Lutellier , Jordan Davis , Lin Tan , Petr Babkin , Sameena Shah

Due to the promising future of Automated Program Repair (APR), researchers have proposed various APR techniques, including heuristic-based, template-based, and constraint-based techniques. Among such classic APR techniques, template-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Chunqiu Steven Xia , Lingming Zhang

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

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate patches for rectifying software bugs. Recent strides in Large Language Models (LLM), such as ChatGPT, have yielded encouraging outcomes in APR, especially within the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiaolong Kong , Mingfei Cheng , Xiaofei Xie , Shangqing Liu , Xiaoning Du , Qi Guo

Automatic program repair (APR) techniques have the potential to reduce manual efforts in uncovering and repairing program defects during the code review (CR) process. However, the limited accuracy and considerable time costs associated with…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Zelin Zhao , Zhaogui Xu , Jialong Zhu , Peng Di , Yuan Yao , Xiaoxing Ma

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

Deep learning frameworks (DLFs) have been playing an increasingly important role in this intelligence age since they act as a basic infrastructure for an increasingly wide range of AIbased applications. Meanwhile, as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Zengyang Li , Sicheng Wang , Wenshuo Wang , Peng Liang , Ran Mo , Bing Li

Software vulnerability detection is generally supported by automated static analysis tools, which have recently been reinforced by deep learning (DL) models. However, despite the superior performance of DL-based approaches over rule-based…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Yanjing Yang , Xin Zhou , Runfeng Mao , Jinwei Xu , Lanxin Yang , Yu Zhangm , Haifeng Shen , He Zhang

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

Large language models (LLMs) have recently demonstrated strong potential for automated program repair (APR). However, existing LLM-based techniques primarily rely on coarse-grained external feedback (e.g.,test results) to guide iterative…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Jiaolong Kong , Xiaofei Xie , Yiheng Xiong , Yuekun Wang , Jian Wang

Automated Program Repair (APR) uses various tools and techniques to help developers achieve functional and error-free code faster. In recent years, Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained popularity as components in APR tool chains because…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Roman Macháček , Anastasiia Grishina , Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Automated program repair (APR) has great potential to reduce the effort and time-consumption in software maintenance and becomes a hot topic in software engineering recently with many approaches being proposed. Multi-location program repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-01-08 Shangwen Wang , Xiaoguang Mao , Nan Niu , Xin Yi , Anbang Guo

Identifying the point of error is imperative in software debugging. Traditional fault localization (FL) techniques rely on executing the program and using the code coverage matrix in tandem with test case results to calculate a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Suhwan Ji , Sanghwa Lee , Changsup Lee , Hyeonseung Im , Yo-Sub Han

Ensuring code correctness remains a challenging problem even as large language models (LLMs) become increasingly capable at code-related tasks. While LLM-based program repair systems can propose bug fixes using only a user's bug report,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Adam Stein , Arthur Wayne , Aaditya Naik , Mayur Naik , Eric Wong

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

Automatic program repair holds the potential of dramatically improving the productivity of programmers during the software development process and correctness of software in general. Recent advances in machine learning, deep learning, and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Hossein Hajipour , Apratim Bhattacharyya , Cristian-Alexandru Staicu , Mario Fritz

This paper introduces DSrepair, a knowledge-enhanced program repair method designed to repair the buggy code generated by LLMs in the data science domain. DSrepair uses knowledge graph based RAG for API knowledge retrieval as well as bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Shuyin Ouyang , Jie M. Zhang , Zeyu Sun , Albert Merono Penuela