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Automatic bug fixing

Automatic bug-fixing is the automatic repair of software bugs without the intervention of a human programmer. It is also commonly referred to as automatic patch generation, automatic bug repair, or automatic program repair. The typical goal of such techniques is to automatically generate correct patches to eliminate bugs in software programs without…

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  • Java Java (programming language)

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Automatic bug fixing

Nodes61
Edges60
Triples26
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.032787
Components1

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Automatic bug fixing

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related to Use · 8
Automatic bug fixing → An, At, ClearView, IDE, In, There, This, When
related to Search space · 6
Automatic bug fixing → Genprog, In, Long, Qi, The, There
related to Specification · 6
Automatic bug fixing → Automatic, Note, Recent, The, Therefore, This
is a · 1
Automatic bug fixing → search activity

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patches repair program bug-fixing techniques automatic java test tool patch bug bugs generate-and-validate search overfitting programs suite cases genprog code

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Automatic bug fixingis asearch activity0.90text
operating at the statement-level or block-levelinstance ofor a more coarse-grained representation0.80text
deleting an existing statement or replacing an existing statement with another statement in the same source fileinstance ofEarlier genetic improvement approaches operate at the statement level and carry out simple delete/replace operations0.80text
eliminating desirable functionalitiesinstance ofA weak test suite may cause generate-and-validate techniques to produce validated but incorrect patches that have negative effects0.80text
causing memory leaksinstance ofA weak test suite may cause generate-and-validate techniques to produce validated but incorrect patches that have negative effects0.80text
and introducing security vulnerabilitiesinstance ofA weak test suite may cause generate-and-validate techniques to produce validated but incorrect patches that have negative effects0.80text
Automatic bug fixingrelated to Search spaceIn0.60section
Automatic bug fixingrelated to Search spaceThe0.60section
Automatic bug fixingrelated to Search spaceThere0.60section
Automatic bug fixingrelated to Search spaceQi0.60section
Automatic bug fixingrelated to Search spaceGenprog0.60section
Automatic bug fixingrelated to Search spaceLong0.60section

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