The strength of random search on automated program repair

Yuhua Qi, Xiaoguang Mao, Yan Lei, Ziying Dai, Chengsong Wang

Abstract

Automated program repair recently received considerable attentions, and many techniques on this research area have been proposed. Among them, two genetic-programming-based techniques, GenProg and Par, have shown the promising results. In particular, GenProg has been used as the baseline technique to check the repair effectiveness of new techniques in much literature. Although GenProg and Par have shown their strong ability of fixing real-life bugs in nontrivial programs, to what extent GenProg and Par can benefit from genetic programming, used by them to guide the patch search process, is still unknown.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Qi-al:ICSE14,
  author    = {Yuhua Qi and
               Xiaoguang Mao and
               Yan Lei and
               Ziying Dai and
               Chengsong Wang},
  title     = {The strength of random search on automated program repair},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {254--265},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2014},
}

The strength of random search on automated program repair

Abstract

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