Program repair at arbitrary fault depth

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Date

4-1-2019

Abstract

Program repair has been an active research area for over a decade and has achieved great strides in terms of scalable automated repair tools. In this paper we argue that existing program repair tools lack an important ingredient, which limits their scope and their efficiency: a formal definition of a fault, and a formal characterization of fault removal. To support our conjecture, we consider GenProg, an archetypical program repair tool, and modify it according to our definitions of fault and fault removal; then we show, by means of empirical experiments, the impact that this has on the effectiveness and efficiency of thee tool.

Identifier

85067969822 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781728117355]

Publication Title

Proceedings 2019 IEEE 12th International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Icst 2019

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICST.2019.00056

First Page

465

Last Page

472

Grant

DGE 1565478

Fund Ref

National Science Foundation

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