Deeper look into bug fixes: Patterns, replacements, deletions, and additions

• Main Authors: SOTO, Mauricio, THUNG, Ferdian, WONG, Chu-Pan, LE GOUES, Claire, David LO
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2016
• Subjects: Automatic error repair; Human-like patches; Maintainability; Software Engineering; Theory and Algorithms
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3564; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4565/viewcontent/Deeper_look_into_bug_fixes__1_.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Many implementations of research techniques that automatically repair software bugs target programs written in C. Work that targets Java often begins from or compares to direct translations of such techniques to a Java context. However, Java and C are very different languages, and Java should be stu...