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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

Due to its potential to improve programmer productivity and software quality, automated program repair has been an active topic of research. Newer techniques harness neural networks to learn directly from examples of buggy programs and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Marko Vasic , Aditya Kanade , Petros Maniatis , David Bieber , Rishabh Singh

Software is used in critical applications in our day-to-day life and it is important to ensure its correctness. One popular approach to assess correctness is to evaluate software on tests. If a test fails, it indicates a fault in the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Max Hort , Leon Moonen

Large language models (LLM) have proven to be effective at automated program repair (APR). However, using LLMs can be costly, with companies invoicing users by the number of tokens. In this paper, we propose CigaR, the first LLM-based APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Dávid Hidvégi , Khashayar Etemadi , Sofia Bobadilla , Martin Monperrus

Stateflow models are widely used in the industry to model the high-level control logic of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) in Simulink--the defacto CPS simulator. Many approaches exist to test Simulink models, but once a fault is detected, the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Aitor Arrieta , Pablo Valle , Shaukat Ali

Software bugs in a production environment have an undesirable impact on quality of service, unplanned system downtime, and disruption in good customer experience, resulting in loss of revenue and reputation. Existing approaches to automated…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-02-21 Anusha Bableshwar , Arun Ravindran , Manoj Iyer

PHP, a dominant scripting language in web development, powers a vast range of websites, from personal blogs to major platforms. While existing research primarily focuses on PHP application-level security issues like code injection, memory…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Yuancheng Jiang , Chuqi Zhang , Bonan Ruan , Jiahao Liu , Manuel Rigger , Roland Yap , Zhenkai Liang

Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to improve software reliability. Recently, neural machine translation (NMT) techniques have been used to fix software bugs automatically. While promising, these approaches have two major…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Nan Jiang , Thibaud Lutellier , Lin Tan

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

As machine learning tools progress, the inevitable question arises: How can machine learning help us write better code? With significant progress being achieved in natural language processing with models like GPT-3 and Bert, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Paul Kassianik , Erik Nijkamp , Bo Pang , Yingbo Zhou , Caiming Xiong

Large language models (LLMs) have shown impressive effectiveness in various software engineering tasks, including automated program repair (APR). In this study, we take a deep dive into automated bug fixing utilizing LLMs. In contrast to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-13 Soneya Binta Hossain , Nan Jiang , Qiang Zhou , Xiaopeng Li , Wen-Hao Chiang , Yingjun Lyu , Hoan Nguyen , Omer Tripp

Software defects are an inherent part of software development and maintenance. To address these defects, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been developed to fix bugs automatically. With the advent of Large Language Models, Code Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-27 Yunan Wang , Tingyu Guo , Zilong Huang , Yuan Yuan

Bug Reproduction Tests (BRTs) have been used in many Automated Program Repair (APR) systems, primarily for validating promising fixes and aiding fix generation. In practice, when developers submit a patch, they often implement the BRT…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Runxiang Cheng , Michele Tufano , José Cambronero , Renyao Wei , Sherry Shi , Grant Uy , Pat Rondon , Franjo Ivančić

Detecting and fixing bugs are two of the most important yet frustrating parts of the software development cycle. Existing bug detection tools are based mainly on static analyzers, which rely on mathematical logic and symbolic reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Dawn Drain , Chen Wu , Alexey Svyatkovskiy , Neel Sundaresan

Previous studies have shown that Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques suffer from the overfitting problem. Overfitting happens when a patch is run and the test suite does not reveal any error, but the patch actually does not fix the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Matias Martinez , Maria Kechagia , Anjana Perera , Justyna Petke , Federica Sarro , Aldeida Aleti

We present HaPy-Bug, a curated dataset of 793 Python source code commits associated with bug fixes, with each line of code annotated by three domain experts. The annotations offer insights into the purpose of modified files, changes at the…

Data quality is paramount in today's data-driven world, especially in the era of generative AI. Dirty data with errors and inconsistencies usually leads to flawed insights, unreliable decision-making, and biased or low-quality outputs from…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Wei Ni , Xiaoye Miao , Xiangyu Zhao , Yangyang Wu , Jianwei Yin

Language models for program synthesis are usually trained and evaluated on programming competition datasets (MBPP, APPS). However, these datasets are limited in size and quality, while these language models are extremely data hungry.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Noah van der Vleuten

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

Issue tracking systems are commonly used in modern software development for collecting feedback from users and developers. An ultimate automation target of software maintenance is then the systematization of patch generation for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Anil Koyuncu , Kui Liu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Dongsun Kim , Martin Monperrus , Jacques Klein , Yves Le Traon