Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2016

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 bugfixing 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.

Keywords

Automatic error repair, Human-like patches, Maintainability

Discipline

Software Engineering | Theory and Algorithms

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

Proceedings of the 2016 13th International Conference on Mining Software Repositories: May 14-15, 2016, Austin, Texas

First Page

512

Last Page

515

Identifier

10.1145/2901739.2903495

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Additional URL

http://doi.org./10.1145/2901739.2903495

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