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ICSE 2023
Sun 14 - Sat 20 May 2023 Melbourne, Australia

Code completion, a highly valuable topic in the software development domain, has been increasingly promoted for use by recent advances in large language models (LLMs). To date, visible LLM-based code completion frameworks such as GitHub Copilot and GPT are trained using deep learning over vast quantities of unstructured text and open source code. As the paramount component and the cornerstone in daily programming tasks, code completion has largely boosted professionals’ efficiency in building real-world software systems. In contrast to this flourishing market, we find that code completion systems often output suspicious results, and to date, an automated testing and enhancement framework for code completion systems is not available. This research proposes CCTEST, a framework to test and repair code completion systems in blackbox settings. CCTEST features a set of novel mutation strategies, namely program structure-correlated (PSC) mutations, to generate mutated code completion inputs. Then, it detects inconsistent outputs, representing possibly erroneous cases, from all the completed code cases. Moreover, CCTEST repairs the code completion outputs by selecting the output that mostly reflects the “average” appearance of all output cases, as the final output of the code completion systems. We detected a total of 33,540 inputs (with a true positive rate of 86%) that can trigger erroneous cases from eight popular LLM-based code completion systems. With repairing, we show that the accuracy of code completion systems is notably increased by 40% and 67% with respect to BLEU score and Levenshtein edit similarity.

Thu 18 May

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

11:00 - 12:30
Program repair techniques and applicationsTechnical Track / Journal-First Papers / DEMO - Demonstrations at Meeting Room 104
Chair(s): Xuan-Bach D. Le University of Melbourne
11:00
15m
Talk
Better Automatic Program Repair by Using Bug Reports and Tests Together
Technical Track
Manish Motwani Georgia Institute of Technology, Yuriy Brun University of Massachusetts
Pre-print
11:15
15m
Talk
CCTEST: Testing and Repairing Code Completion Systems
Technical Track
Li Zongjie , Chaozheng Wang Harbin Institute of Technology, Zhibo Liu Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Haoxuan Wang EPFL, Dong Chen HKUST, Shuai Wang Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Cuiyun Gao Harbin Institute of Technology
11:30
7m
Talk
A Controlled Experiment of Different Code Representations for Learning-Based Program Repair
Journal-First Papers
Marjane Namavar University of British Columbia, Noor Nashid University of British Columbia, Ali Mesbah University of British Columbia (UBC)
Link to publication Pre-print
11:37
7m
Talk
Patching Locking Bugs Statically with Crayons
Journal-First Papers
Juan Alfredo Cruz-Carlon IT University of Copenhagen, Mahsa Varshosaz IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Claire Le Goues Carnegie Mellon University, Andrzej Wąsowski IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
11:45
15m
Talk
KNOD: Domain Knowledge Distilled Tree Decoder for Automated Program Repair
Technical Track
Nan Jiang Purdue University, Thibaud Lutellier University of Alberta, Yiling Lou Fudan University, Lin Tan Purdue University, Dan Goldwasser Purdue University, Xiangyu Zhang Purdue University
Pre-print
12:00
15m
Talk
Rete: Learning Namespace Representation for Program RepairDistinguished Paper Award
Technical Track
Nikhil Parasaram University College London, Earl T. Barr University College London, Sergey Mechtaev University College London
Link to publication Pre-print
12:15
7m
Talk
Cerberus: a Program Repair Framework
DEMO - Demonstrations
Ridwan Salihin Shariffdeen National University of Singapore, Martin Mirchev National University of Singapore, Yannic Noller National University of Singapore, Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore
12:22
7m
Talk
Predicting Patch Correctness Based on the Similarity of Failing Test Cases
Journal-First Papers
Haoye Tian University of Luxembourg, Yinghua LI University of Luxembourg, Weiguo PIAN University of Luxembourg, Abdoul Kader Kaboré SnT, University of Luxembourg, Kui Liu Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, Andrew Habib SnT, University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé SnT, University of Luxembourg