Automated Large Program Repair based on Big Code
Hoang Van Thuy, Phan Viet Anh, Nguyễn Xuân Hoài · 2018
The task of automatic program repair is to automatically localize and generate the correct patches for the bugs. A prominent approach is to produce a space of candidate patches, then find and validate candidates on test case sets. However, searching for the correct candidates is really challenging, since the search space is dominated by incorrect patches and its size is huge.