CURE: Code-Aware Neural Machine Translation for Automatic Program Repair

• Published in: 2021 IEEE/ACM 43rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 1161 - 1173
• Main Authors: Jiang, Nan, Lutellier, Thibaud, Tan, Lin
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2021
• Subjects: automatic program repair; Benchmark testing; Computer bugs; Machine translation; Maintenance engineering; Search problems; Software; Software reliability

Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to improve software reliability. Recently, neural machine translation (NMT) techniques have been used to automatically fix software bugs. While promising, these approaches have two major limitations. Their search space often does not contain the correct fix,...