Automatic bug fixing: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 06:54, 4 January 2024

Revision as of 22:04, 4 February 2024

Line 1:

{{short description|Automatic repair of software bugs}}

'''Automatic bug-fixing''' is the automatic [[Patch (computing)|repair]] of [[software bug]]s without the intervention of a human programmer.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rinard |first=Martin C. |year=2008 |title=Technical perspective ''Patching'' program errors |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=51 |issue=12 |pages=86 |doi=10.1145/1409360.1409381 |s2cid=28629846}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Harman |first=Mark |year=2010 |title=Automated patching techniques |journal=Communications of the ACM |volume=53 |issue=5 |pages=108 |doi=10.1145/1735223.1735248 |s2cid=9729944}}</ref> It is also commonly referred to as ''automatic patch generation'', ''automatic bug repair'', or ''automatic program repair''.<ref name="Gazzola2019">{{Cite journal |last1=Gazzola |first1=Luca |last2=Micucci |first2=Daniela |last3=Mariani |first3=Leonardo |year=2019 |title=Automatic Software Repair: A Survey |url=https://boa.unimib.it/bitstream/10281/184798/2/08089448_final.pdf |journal=IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |volume=45 |issue=1 |pages=34–67 |doi=10.1109/TSE.2017.2755013 |hdl=10281/184798 |s2cid=57764123|doi-access=free }}</ref> The typical goal of such techniques is to automatically generate correct [[Patch (computing)|patches]] to eliminate [[software bug|bugs]] in [[software program]]s without causing [[software regression]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Tan |first1=Shin Hwei |title=2015 IEEE/ACM 37th IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering |last2=Roychoudhury |first2=Abhik |date=2015 |publisher=IEEE |isbn=978-1-4799-1934-5 |pages=471–482 |chapter=relifix: Automated repair of software regressions |doi=10.1109/ICSE.2015.65 |s2cid=17125466}}</ref>

== Specification ==