JFIX: Semantics-based repair of Java programs via symbolic PathFinder

• Main Authors: LE, Xuan Bach D., CHU, Duc-Hiep, LO, David, LE, GOUES, VISSER, Willem
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Automatic Program Repair; Symbolic Execution; Program Synthesis; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3690; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/4692/viewcontent/jfix_issta17.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Recently there has been a proliferation of automated program repair (APR) techniques, targeting various programming languages. Such techniques can be generally classified into two families: syntactic- and semantics-based. Semantics-based APR, on which we focus, typically uses symbolic execution to i...