Automatic program repair (APR) offers significant potential for automating some coding
tasks. Using APR could reduce the high costs historically associated with fixing code faults …

Programmers use various software development artifacts in their work, such as
programming environments, design documents, and programming codes. These software …

Modern version control systems, eg, GitHub, include bug tracking mechanisms that
developers can use to highlight the presence of bugs. This is done by means of bug reports …

Recruiting professional programmers in sufficient numbers for research studies can be
challenging because they often cannot spare the time, or due to their geographical …

When identifying the origin of software bugs, many studies assume that “a bug was
introduced by the lines of code that were modified to fix it”. However, this assumption does …

One of the main challenges that developers face when testing their systems lies in
engineering test cases that are good enough to reveal bugs. And while our body of …

Automatic program repair (APR) is a rapidly advancing field of software engineering that
aims to supplement or replace manual bug fixing with an automated tool. For APR to be …

When debugging, developers engage in activities such as navigating, editing, testing, and
inspecting code. Despite being the building blocks of debugging, little is known about how …

The increasing adoption and commercialization of generalized Large Language Models
(LLMs) have profoundly impacted various aspects of our daily lives. Initially embraced by the …

Multiverse analysis—a paradigm for statistical analysis that considers all combinations of
reasonable analysis choices in parallel—promises to improve transparency and …