TransplantFix: Graph differencing-based code transplantation for automated program repair

• Main Authors: YANG, Deheng, MAO, Xiaoguang, CHEN, Liqian, XU, Xuezheng, LEI, Yan, LO, David, HE, Jiayu
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Automated program repair; code transplantation; graph differencing; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7731; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8734/viewcontent/ASE22_TFix_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Automated program repair (APR) holds the promise of aiding manual debugging activities. Over a decade of evolution, a broad range of APR techniques have been proposed and evaluated on a set of real-world bug datasets. However, while more and more bugs have been correctly fixed, we observe that the g...