SemFix: Program repair via semantic analysis

• Published in: 2013 35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) pp. 772 - 781
• Main Authors: Hoang Duong Thien Nguyen, Dawei Qi, Roychoudhury, Abhik, Chandra, Satish
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.05.2013
• Subjects: Computer bugs; Educational institutions; Genetic programming; Input variables; Maintenance engineering; Semantics; Syntactics

Debugging consumes significant time and effort in any major software development project. Moreover, even after the root cause of a bug is identified, fixing the bug is non-trivial. Given this situation, automated program repair methods are of value. In this paper, we present an automated repair meth...