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The exercise of detecting similar bug reports in bug tracking systems is known as duplicate bug report detection. Having prior knowledge of a bug report's existence reduces efforts put into debugging problems and identifying the root cause.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Avinash Patil , Aryan Jadon

Detecting buffer overruns from a source code is one of the most common and yet challenging tasks in program analysis. Current approaches have mainly relied on rigid rules and handcrafted features devised by a few experts, limiting…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-03-08 Min-je Choi , Sehun Jeong , Hakjoo Oh , Jaegul Choo

Software plays a crucial role in our daily lives, and therefore the quality and security of software systems have become increasingly important. However, vulnerabilities in software still pose a significant threat, as they can have serious…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Chaozheng Wang , Zongjie Li , Yun Peng , Shuzheng Gao , Sirong Chen , Shuai Wang , Cuiyun Gao , Michael R. Lyu

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

Multimodal Automated Program Repair (MAPR) extends traditional program repair by requiring models to jointly reason over source code, textual issue descriptions, and visual artifacts such as GUI screenshots. While recent LLM-based repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Ruize Ma , Yilei Jiang , Shilin Zhang , Zheng Ma , Yi Feng , Vincent Ng , Zhi Wang , Xiangyu Yue , Chuanyi Li , Lewei Lu

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars each year and take up ~50% of the development time. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Avinash Gopal

Speech repairs occur often in spontaneous spoken dialogues. The ability to detect and correct those repairs is necessary for any spoken language system. We present a framework to detect and correct speech repairs where all relevant levels…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Joerg Spilker , Martin Klarner , Guenther Goerz

Automated program repair (APR) techniques have achieved conspicuous progress, and are now capable of producing genuinely correct fixes in scenarios that were well beyond their capabilities only a few years ago. Nevertheless, even when an…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Shifat Sahariar Bhuiyan , Abhishek Tiwari , Yu Pei , Carlo A. Furia

Research on automatic software repair is concerned with the development of systems that automatically detect and repair bugs. One well-known class of bugs is the infinite loop. Every computer programmer or user has, at least once,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Sebastian R. Lamelas Marcote , Martin Monperrus

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

Inconsistent values are commonly encountered in real-world applications, which can negatively impact data analysis and decision-making. While existing research primarily focuses on identifying the smallest removal set to resolve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Haoda Li , Jiahui Chen , Yu Sun , Shaoxu Song , Haiwei Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

We propose NOPOL, an approach to automatic repair of buggy conditional statements (i.e., if-then-else statements). This approach takes a buggy program as well as a test suite as input and generates a patch with a conditional expression as…

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

Automated program repair (APR) has recently shifted toward large language models and agent-based systems, yet most systems rely on local snapshot context, overlooking repository history. Prior work shows that repository history helps repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Yu Shi , Hao Li , Bram Adams , Ahmed E. Hassan

Automated program repair is already deployed in industry, but concerns remain about repair quality. Recent research has shown that one of the main reasons repair tools produce incorrect (but seemingly correct) patches is imperfect fault…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Manish Motwani , Yuriy Brun

Background: Over the years, Automated Program Repair (APR) has attracted much attention from both academia and industry since it can reduce the costs in fixing bugs. However, how to assess the patch correctness remains to be an open…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Shangwen Wang , Ming Wen , Liqian Chen , Xin Yi , Xiaoguang Mao

We present NNrepair, a constraint-based technique for repairing neural network classifiers. The technique aims to fix the logic of the network at an intermediate layer or at the last layer. NNrepair first uses fault localization to find…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-16 Muhammad Usman , Divya Gopinath , Youcheng Sun , Yannic Noller , Corina Pasareanu

We present a formal framework for repairing infinite-state, imperative, sequential programs, with (possibly recursive) procedures and multiple assertions; the framework can generate repaired programs by modifying the original erroneous…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2014-04-01 Roopsha Samanta , Oswaldo Olivo , E. Allen Emerson

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

There are billions of lines of sequential code inside nowadays' software which do not benefit from the parallelism available in modern multicore architectures. Automatically parallelizing sequential code, to promote an efficient use of the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-04-13 Alcides Fonseca , Bruno Cabral , João Rafael , Ivo Correia