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Wed 12 Jul 2017 10:55 - 11:20 at Bren 1414 - Program Repair and Patching Chair(s): Michael Pradel

In this work, we investigate the practice of patch construction in the Linux kernel development, focusing on the differences between three patching processes: (1) patches crafted entirely manually to fix bugs, (2) those that are derived from warnings of bug detection tools, and (3) those that are automatically generated based on fix patterns. With this study, we provide to the research community concrete insights on the practice of patching as well as how the development community is currently embracing research and commercial patching tools to improve productivity in repair. The result of our study shows that tool-supported patches are increasingly adopted by the developer community while manually-written patches are accepted more quickly. Patch application tools enable developers to remain committed to contributing patches to the code base. Our findings also include that, in actual development processes, patches generally implement several change operations spread over the code, even for patches fixing warnings by bug detection tools. Finally, this study has shown that there is an opportunity to directly leverage the output of bug detection tools to readily generate patches that are appropriate for fixing the problem, and that are consistent with manually-written patches.

Wed 12 Jul

Displayed time zone: Tijuana, Baja California change

10:30 - 11:45
Program Repair and PatchingTechnical Papers at Bren 1414
Chair(s): Michael Pradel TU Darmstadt
10:30
25m
Talk
Identifying Test-Suite-Overfitted Patches through Test Case Generation
Technical Papers
Qi Xin Brown University, USA, Steven P. Reiss Brown University, USA
DOI
10:55
25m
Talk
Impact of Tool Support in Patch Construction
Technical Papers
Anil Koyuncu University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Dongsun Kim University of Luxembourg, Jacques Klein University of Luxembourg, Martin Monperrus , Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg
DOI
11:20
25m
Talk
Automated Repair of Layout Cross Browser Issues using Search-Based Techniques
Technical Papers
Sonal Mahajan University of Southern California, USA, Abdulmajeed Alameer University of Southern California, USA, Phil McMinn University of Sheffield, William G.J. Halfond University of Southern California
DOI