Automatic Program Repair

Journal article, 2021

This article from the issue of f IEEE Software reports on papers about automatic program repair (APR) from the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Soft ware Engineering (ASE20), the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW20), and the 13th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST20). ‘Antipatterns for Java Automated Program Repair Tools’ by Yi Wu analyzes plausible patches, that is, patches that produce correct outputs for all inputs in the test suite but may fail beyond the test suite, for Java code generated by automated repair tools such as SimFix, CapGen, and LSRepair to identify deficiencies in these patches. ‘Automated Patch Correctness Assessment: How Far are We?’ by Shangwen Wang and colleagues presents the results of an empirical study on the effectiveness of automated patch correctness assessment techniques, including both static and dynamic approaches.