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(Note: This work is a preprint.) Static analysis (SA) tools produce many diagnostic alerts indicating that source code in C or C++ may be defective and potentially vulnerable to security exploits. Many of these alerts are false positives.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-06 David Svoboda , Lori Flynn , William Klieber , Michael Duggan , Nicholas Reimer , Joseph Sible

The gap between the trepidation of program reliability and the expense of repairs underscores the indispensability of Automated Program Repair (APR). APR is instrumental in transforming vulnerable programs into more robust ones, bolstering…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yuze Zhao , Zhenya Huang , Yixiao Ma , Rui Li , Kai Zhang , Hao Jiang , Qi Liu , Linbo Zhu , Yu Su

Modern web applications often resort to application development frameworks such as React, Vue.js, and Angular. While the frameworks facilitate the development of web applications with several useful components, they are inevitably…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-17 Arooba Shahoor , Askar Yeltayuly Khamit , Jooyong Yi , Dongsun Kim

Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using the software. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating bug replay to expedite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen

Program repair research has made tremendous progress over the last few years, and software development bots are now being invented to help developers gain productivity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of a " program repair bot "…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-03-11 Simon Urli , Zhongxing Yu , Lionel Seinturier , Martin Monperrus

This paper is about understanding the nature of bug fixing by analyzing thousands of bug fix transactions of software repositories. It then places this learned knowledge in the context of automated program repair. We give extensive…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Matias Martinez , Martin Monperrus

Software documentation frequently drifts from executable logic as codebases evolve, creating technical debt that degrades maintainability and causes downstream API misuse. While static analysis tools can detect the absence of documentation,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Sidhesh Badrinarayan , Adithya Parthasarathy

Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to enhance software reliability by automatically generating bug-fixing patches. Recent work has improved the state-of-the-art of APR by fine-tuning pre-trained large language models (LLMs), such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Xuemeng Cai , Lingxiao Jiang

Automated program repair (APR) techniques are effective in fixing inevitable defects in software, enhancing development efficiency and software robustness. However, due to the difficulty of generating precise specifications, existing APR…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Xu He , Shu Wang , Kun Sun

Bug datasets consisting of real-world bugs are important artifacts for researchers and programmers, which lay empirical and experimental foundation for various SE/PL research such as fault localization, software testing, and program repair.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Xuezhi Song , Yun Lin , Siang Hwee Ng , Yijian Wu , Xin Peng , Jin Song Dong , Hong Mei

Production deployment of AI coding agents requires fast, reproducible evaluation signals. Existing industrial practices trade off speed and fidelity: online A/B testing takes weeks and risks user experience, shadow deployment yields signals…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Smriti Jha , Matteo Paltenghi , Chandra Maddila , Vijayaraghavan Murali , Shubham Ugare , Satish Chandra

Defects4J is a large, peer-reviewed, structured dataset of real-world Java bugs. Each bug in Defects4J comes with a test suite and at least one failing test case that triggers the bug. In this paper, we report on an experiment to explore…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Matias Martinez , Thomas Durieux , Romain Sommerard , Jifeng Xuan , Martin Monperrus

In recent years, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been extensively studied in academia and even drawn wide attention from industry. However, APR techniques can be extremely time consuming since (1) a large number of patches can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yiling Lou , Jun Yang , Samuel Benton , Dan Hao , Lin Tan , Zhenpeng Chen , Lu Zhang , Lingming Zhang

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

Debugging takes up a significant portion of developer time. As a result, automated debugging techniques including Fault Localization (FL) and Automated Program Repair (APR) have garnered significant attention due to their potential to aid…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Sungmin Kang , Wonkeun Choi , Shin Yoo

Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of bugs across projects, the associated similar patches…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Anil Koyuncu , Kui Liu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Dongsun Kim , Jacques Klein , Martin Monperrus , Yves Le Traon

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

Fixing software bugs has always been an essential and time-consuming process in software development. Fixing concurrency bugs has become especially critical in the multicore era. However, fixing concurrency bugs is challenging due to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-01-10 Sanjay Malakar , Tameem Bin Haider , Rifat Shahriar

Though many approaches have been proposed for Automated Program Repair (APR) and indeed achieved remarkable performance, they still have limitations in fixing bugs that require analyzing and reasoning about the logic of the buggy program.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Xin Yin , Chao Ni , Shaohua Wang , Zhenhao Li , Limin Zeng , Xiaohu Yang

Context: Bug bisection is a common technique used to identify a revision that introduces a bug or indirectly fixes a bug, and often involves executing multiple revisions of a project to determine whether the bug is present within the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Ching Hang Mak , Shing-Chi Cheung