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Repairnator patches programs automatically

Year: 2019

Type: article

Abstract: Repairnator is a bot. It constantly monitors software bugs discovered during continuous integration of open-source software and tries to fix them automatically. If it succeeds in synthesizing a valid patch, Repairnator proposes the patch to the human developers, disguised under a fake human identity. To date, Repairnator has been able to produce patches that were accepted by the human developers and permanently merged into the code base. This is a milestone for human-competitiveness in software engineering research on automatic program repair.

Source: Ubiquity

DOI: 10.1145/3349589

Authors: Martin Monperrus, Simon Urli, Thomas Durieux, Matias Martinez, Benoit Baudry, Lionel Seinturier

Institutions: KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento, University of Lisbon, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Université de Lille

Language: English

Topic: Software Testing and Debugging Techniques

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funder: Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse

OpenAlex ID: W2965720427

FWCI: 8.191

Cites: 16

Cited by: 43

Related to: 10