Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

10-2022

Abstract

Automatically fixing compilation errors can greatly raise the productivity of software development, by guiding the novice or AI programmers to write and debug code. Recently, learning-based program repair has gained extensive attention and became the stateof-the-art in practice. But it still leaves plenty of space for improvement. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end solution TransRepair to locate the error lines and create the correct substitute for a C program simultaneously. Superior to the counterpart, our approach takes into account the context of erroneous code and diagnostic compilation feedback. Then we devise a Transformer-based neural network to learn the ways of repair from the erroneous code as well as its context and the diagnostic feedback. To increase the effectiveness of TransRepair, we summarize 5 types and 74 fine-grained sub-types of compilations errors from two real-world program datasets and the Internet. Then a program corruption technique is developed to synthesize a large dataset with 1,821,275 erroneous C programs. Through the extensive experiments, we demonstrate that TransRepair outperforms the state-of-the-art in both single repair accuracy and full repair accuracy. Further analysis sheds light on the strengths and weaknesses in the contemporary solutions for future improvement.

Keywords

Program repair, compilation error, deep learning, context-aware

Discipline

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics | Programming Languages and Compilers

Research Areas

Intelligent Systems and Optimization

Publication

ASE '22: Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Rochester, MI, October 10-14

First Page

1

Last Page

13

ISBN

9781450394758

Identifier

10.1145/3551349.3560422

Publisher

ACM

City or Country

New York

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Authors

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1145/3551349.3560422

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