* ICSE 2018 *
Sun 27 May - Sun 3 June 2018 Gothenburg, Sweden
Wed 30 May 2018 15:00 - 15:20 at H1 room - Software Repair II Chair(s): Alessandro Orso

The primary goal of Automated Program Repair (APR) is to automatically fix buggy software, to reduce the manual bug-fix burden that presently rests on human developers. Existing APR techniques can be generally divided into two families: semantics- vs. heuristics-based. Semantics-based APR uses symbolic execution and test suites to extract semantic constraints, and uses program synthesis to synthesize repairs that satisfy the extracted constraints. Heuristic-based APR generates large populations of repair candidates via source manipulation, and searches for the best among them. Both families largely rely on a primary assumption that a program is correctly patched if the generated patch leads the program to pass all provided test cases. Patch correctness is thus an especially pressing concern. A repair technique may generate overfitting patches, which lead a program to pass all existing test cases, but fails to generalize beyond them. In this work, we revisit the overfitting problem with a focus on semantics-based APR techniques, complementing previous studies of the overfitting problem in heuristics-based APR. We perform our study using IntroClass and Codeflaws benchmarks, two datasets well-suited for assessing repair quality, to systematically characterize and understand the nature of overfitting in semantics-based APR. We find that similar to heuristics-based APR, overfitting also occurs in semantics-based APR in various different ways.

Wed 30 May

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14:00 - 15:30
Software Repair IITechnical Papers / Journal first papers at H1 room
Chair(s): Alessandro Orso Georgia Tech
14:00
20m
Talk
Semantic Program Repair Using a Reference Implementation
Technical Papers
Sergey Mechtaev National University of Singapore, Manh-Dung Nguyen , Yannic Noller Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Lars Grunske Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore
File Attached
14:20
20m
Talk
Automated Repair of Mobile Friendly Problems in Web Pages
Technical Papers
Sonal Mahajan University of Southern California, USA, Negarsadat Abolhassani , Phil McMinn University of Sheffield, William G.J. Halfond University of Southern California
14:40
20m
Talk
Static Automated Program Repair for Heap PropertiesAward
Technical Papers
Rijnard van Tonder Carnegie Mellon University, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print File Attached
15:00
20m
Talk
Overfitting in Semantics-based Automated Program Repair
Journal first papers
Xuan-Bach D. Le Singapore Management University, Singapore, Ferdian Thung , David Lo Singapore Management University, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University
Pre-print
15:20
10m
Talk
Q&A in groups
Technical Papers