Automated Program Repair Task

An Automated Program Repair Task is a corrective maintenance task that can automatically identify and fix software defects to restore software functionality.

• AKA: Automatic Bug Fixing Task, Self-Healing Software Task, Automated Code Repair Task.
• Context:
  • It can typically detect Software Bug Patterns through automated analysis.
  • It can typically generate Software Patches using repair algorithms.
  • It can often validate Repair Solutions against software test suites.
  • It can often utilize Historical Bug-Fix Data for repair guidance.
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  • It can range from being a Simple Automated Program Repair Task to being a Complex Automated Program Repair Task, depending on its defect complexity.
  • It can range from being a Syntactic Automated Program Repair Task to being a Semantic Automated Program Repair Task, depending on its repair approach.
  • It can range from being a Single-Line Automated Program Repair Task to being a Multi-Location Automated Program Repair Task, depending on its repair scope.
  • It can range from being a Test-Driven Automated Program Repair Task to being a Specification-Driven Automated Program Repair Task, depending on its correctness criteria.
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  • It can be performed by an Automated Program Repair System.
  • It can integrate with Software Development Tools.
  • It can support Software Quality Assurance Tasks.
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• Example(s):
  • Template-Based Automated Program Repair Tasks that apply fix templates.
  • Search-Based Automated Program Repair Tasks using evolutionary algorithms.
  • Learning-Based Automated Program Repair Tasks using machine learning models.
  • Large Language Model-Based Automated Program Repair Tasks using LLMs.
  • Constraint-Based Automated Program Repair Tasks using formal verification.
  • Pattern-Mining Automated Program Repair Tasks extracting repair patterns from code repositorys.
  • Test-Suite-Augmented Automated Program Repair Tasks generating additional test cases.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • Manual Debugging Task, which requires human intervention.
  • Software Testing Task, which detects but does not fix defects.
  • Software Code Refactoring Task, which improves structure without fixing bugs.
• See: Corrective Maintenance Task, Software Maintenance Task, Software Engineering Task, Bug Detection Task.

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