When automated program repair meets regression testing - an extensive study on two million patches

• Main Authors: Lou, Yiling, Yang, Jun, Benton, Samuel, Hao, Dan, Tan, Lin, Chen, Zhenpeng, Zhang, Lu, Zhang, Lingming
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2025
• Subjects: Computer and Information Science; Patch validation; Program repair
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/182504
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In recent years, Automated Program Repair (APR) has been extensively studied in academia and even drawn wide attention from the industry. However, APR techniques can be extremely time consuming since (1) a large number of patches can be generated for a given bug, and (2) each patch needs to be execu...