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Thu 13 Oct 2022 14:40 - 14:50 at Ballroom C East - Technical Session 25 - Software Repairs Chair(s): Yannic Noller

Template-based automatic program repair (T-APR) techniques depend on the quality of bug-fixing templates, which are pairs of buggy- and patch-code templates. For such templates to be of sufficient quality for T-APR techniques to succeed, they must satisfy three criteria: applicability, fixability, and efficiency. Mining appropriate bug-fixing templates for use in T-APR is an optimization problem in finding templates which satisfy all three criteria. Existing template mining approaches select templates based only on the first criteria, and are thus suboptimal in their performance. This study proposes a multi-objective optimization-based bug-fixing template mining method for T-APR in which we estimate template quality based on nine code abstraction tasks and three objective functions. Our method determines the optimal code abstraction strategy (i.e., the optimal combination of abstraction tasks) which maximizes the values of three objective functions and generates a final set of bug-fixing templates by clustering template candidates to which the optimal abstraction strategy is applied. Our preliminary experiment demonstrated that our optimized strategy can improve templates’ applicability and efficiency by 7% and 146% over the existing mining technique, respectively. We therefore conclude that the multi-objective optimization-based template mining technique effectively finds high-quality bug-fixing templates.

Thu 13 Oct

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13:30 - 15:30
Technical Session 25 - Software RepairsNIER Track / Research Papers / Tool Demonstrations at Ballroom C East
Chair(s): Yannic Noller National University of Singapore
13:30
20m
Research paper
ICEBAR: Feedback-Driven Iterative Repair of Alloy Specifications
Research Papers
Simón Gutiérrez Brida University of Rio Cuarto and CONICET, Argentina, Germán Regis Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Guolong Zheng University of Nebraska Lincoln, Hamid Bagheri University of Nebraska-Lincoln, ThanhVu Nguyen George Mason University, Nazareno Aguirre University of Rio Cuarto and CONICET, Argentina, Marcelo F. Frias Dept. of Software Engineering Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires
13:50
20m
Research paper
Repairing Failure-inducing Inputs with Input Reflection
Research Papers
Yan Xiao National University of Singapore, Yun Lin National University of Singapore, Ivan Beschastnikh University of British Columbia, Changsheng SUN , David Rosenblum George Mason University, Jin Song Dong National University of Singapore
14:10
10m
Demonstration
ElecDaug: Electromagnetic Data Augmentation for Model Repair based on Metamorphic Relation
Tool Demonstrations
Jiawei He , Zhida Bao Harbin Engineering University, Quanjun Zhang Nanjing University, Weisong Sun State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Jiawei Liu Nanjing University, Chunrong Fang Nanjing University, Yun Lin National University of Singapore
14:20
20m
Research paper
TransplantFix: Graph Differencing-based Code Transplantation for Automated Program RepairVirtual
Research Papers
Deheng Yang National University of Defense Technology, Xiaoguang Mao National University of Defense Technology, Liqian Chen National University of Defense Technology, China, Xuezheng Xu Academy of Military Sciences, Beijing, China, Yan Lei Chongqing University, David Lo Singapore Management University, Jiayu He National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China
14:40
10m
Vision and Emerging Results
Multi-objective Optimization-based Bug-fixing Template Mining for Automated Program RepairVirtual
NIER Track
Misoo Kim Sungkyunkwan University, Youngkyoung Kim Sungkyunkwan University, Kicheol Kim SungKyunKwan University, Eunseok Lee Sungkyunkwan University
14:50
20m
Research paper
StandUp4NPR: Standardizing Setup for Empirically Comparing Neural Program Repair SystemsVirtual
Research Papers
Wenkang Zhong State Key Laboratory for Novel Software and Technology, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, China, Hongliang Ge State Key Laboratory for Novel Software and Technology, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, China, Hongfei Ai State Key Laboratory for Novel Software and Technology, Nanjing University, 22 Hankou Road, Nanjing, China, Chuanyi Li State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Kui Liu Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, Jidong Ge , Bin Luo Software Institute, Nanjing University