An increasingly popular set of techniques adopted by software engineering (SE)
researchers to automate development tasks are those rooted in the concept of Deep …

Abstract Automated Program Repair (APR) has attracted significant attention from software
engineering research and practice communities in the last decade. Several teams have …

We revisit the performance of template-based APR to build comprehensive knowledge
about the effectiveness of fix patterns, and to highlight the importance of complementary …

Context: Identifying potential vulnerable code is important to improve the security of our
software systems. However, the manual detection of software vulnerabilities requires expert …

Patching is a common activity in software development. It is generally performed on a source
code base to address bugs or add new functionalities. In this context, given the recurrence of …

Test-based automated program repair has been a prolific field of research in software
engineering in the last decade. Many approaches have indeed been proposed, which …

A large body of the literature of automated program repair develops approaches where
patches are generated to be validated against an oracle (eg, a test suite). Because such an …

Fix pattern-based patch generation is a promising direction in Automated Program Repair
(APR). Notably, it has been demonstrated to produce more acceptable and correct patches …

Code search is an unavoidable activity in software development. Various approaches and
techniques have been explored in the literature to support code search tasks. Most of these …

To ensure code readability and facilitate software maintenance, program methods must be
named properly. In particular, method names must be consistent with the corresponding …