Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Many implementations of research techniques that automatically repair software bugs target programs written in C. Work that targets Java often begins from or compares to direct translations of such techniques to a Java context. However, Java and C are very different languages, and Java should be studied to inform the construction of repair approaches to target it. We conduct a large-scale study of bug-fixing commits in Java projects, focusing on assumptions underlying common search-based repair approaches. We make observations that can be leveraged to guide high quality automatic software repair to target Java specifically, including common and uncommon statement modifications in human patches and the applicability of previously-proposed patch construction operators in the Java context.
Institutions: Carnegie Mellon University, Singapore Management University
Language: English
Subfield: Software
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
Funder: U.S. Department of Defense
Award: G2615747888
OpenAlex ID: W2404969801