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Automated Program Repair (APR) has garnered significant attention due to its potential to streamline the bug repair process for human developers. Recently, LLM-based APR methods have shown promise in repairing real-world bugs. However,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Fengjie Li , Jiajun Jiang , Jiajun Sun , Hongyu Zhang

This study explores the potential of Large Language Models (LLMs) in automating the repair of C programs. We present a framework that integrates spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL), runtime feedback, and Chain-of-Thought-structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Mahdi Farzandway , Fatemeh Ghassemi

Recently, multiple Automated Program Repair (APR) techniques based on Large Language Models (LLMs) have been proposed to enhance the repair performance. While these techniques mainly focus on the single-line or hunk-level repair, they face…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jiahong Xiang , Xiaoyang Xu , Fanchu Kong , Mingyuan Wu , Zizheng Zhang , Haotian Zhang , Yuqun Zhang

Large language models such as Codex, have shown the capability to produce code for many programming tasks. However, the success rate of existing models is low, especially for complex programming tasks. One of the reasons is that language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Zhiyu Fan , Xiang Gao , Martin Mirchev , Abhik Roychoudhury , Shin Hwei Tan

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

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

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

APR (Automated Program Repair) aims to automatically locate program defects, generate patches and validate the repairs. Existing techniques for APR are often combined with LLMs (Large Language Models), which leverages the code-related…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Haichuan Hu , Xiaochen Xie , Quanjun Zhang

Recent empirical studies show that the performance of GenProg is not satisfactory, particularly for Java. In this paper, we propose ARJA, a new GP based repair approach for automated repair of Java programs. To be specific, we present a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Yuan Yuan , Wolfgang Banzhaf

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

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

Large language models (LLMs) have recently shown strong potential for automated program repair (APR), particularly through iterative refinement that generates and improves candidate patches. However, state-of-the-art iterative refinement…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Cuong Chi Le , Minh Le-Anh , Cuong Duc Van , Tien N. Nguyen

Machine learning (ML) now pervades the field of Automated Program Repair (APR). Algorithms deploy neural machine translation and large language models (LLMs) to generate software patches, among other tasks. But, there are important…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-10 Joseph Renzullo , Pemma Reiter , Westley Weimer , Stephanie Forrest

Automated Program Repair (APR) plays a critical role in enhancing the quality and reliability of software systems. While substantial progress has been made in Java-based APR, largely facilitated by benchmarks like Defects4J, there remains a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Jian Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Qiang Hu , Shangqing Liu , Jiongchi Yu , Jiaolong Kong , Yi Li

In recent years, JavaScript has become the most widely used programming language, especially in web development. However, writing secure JavaScript code is not trivial, and programmers often make mistakes that lead to security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Tan Khang Le , Saba Alimadadi , Steven Y. Ko

LLMs have garnered considerable attention for their potential to streamline Automated Program Repair (APR). LLM-based approaches can either insert the correct code or directly generate patches when provided with buggy methods. However, most…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Qiong Feng , Xiaotian Ma , Jiayi Sheng , Ziyuan Feng , Wei Song , Peng Liang

Automatic Program Repair (APR) is a core technology in software development and maintenance, with aims to enable automated defect repair with minimal human intervention. In recent years, the substantial advancements in Large Language Models…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Quanming Liu , Xupeng Bu , Zhichao Yan , Ru Li

Large Language Model (LLM)-based Automated Program Repair (APR) has shown strong potential on textual benchmarks, yet struggles in multimodal scenarios where bugs are reported with GUI screenshots. Existing methods typically convert images…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Zhuoyao Liu , Zhengran Zeng , Shu-Dong Huang , Yang Liu , Shikun Zhang , Wei Ye

This research addresses the complex challenge of automated repair of code vulnerabilities, vital for enhancing digital security in an increasingly technology-driven world. The study introduces a novel and efficient format for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-10-04 David de-Fitero-Dominguez , Eva Garcia-Lopez , Antonio Garcia-Cabot , Jose-Javier Martinez-Herraiz

Automated program repair (APR) aims to fix software bugs without human intervention and template-based APR has been widely investigated with promising results. However, it is challenging for template-based APR to select the appropriate…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Quanjun Zhang , Chunrong Fang , Tongke Zhang , Bowen Yu , Weisong Sun , Zhenyu Chen