Exploiting Defect Prediction for Automatic Software Repair (Fixie)
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Central Lancashire
Department Name: Sch of Physical Sciences and Computing
Abstract
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People |
ORCID iD |
| David Bowes (Principal Investigator) |
Publications
Bowes D
(2020)
BugVis
Kirbas S
(2021)
On The Introduction of Automatic Program Repair in Bloomberg
in IEEE Software
Nowack V
(2021)
Expanding Fix Patterns to Enable Automatic Program Repair
Nowack V
(2020)
Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair
Winter E
(2023)
Let's Talk With Developers, Not About Developers: A Review of Automatic Program Repair Research
in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Winter E
(2020)
Human Factors in the Study of Automatic Software Repair
| Title | BugViz |
| Description | Visualisation of fault history in software |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Publication in international conference: BugVis: Commit Slicing for Fault Visualisation David Bowes, Jean Petric, Tracy Hall |
| Title | Expanding Fix Patterns to Enable Automatic Program Repair. |
| Description | Automated technique for the extraction of fix patterns which were previously identified using a manual approach |
| Type Of Material | Improvements to research infrastructure |
| Year Produced | 2022 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | None as yet although leading researchers in the area have asked for access to the replication package. |
| Title | Expanding Fix Patterns to Enable Automatic Program Repair. |
| Description | Dataset and model determines a set of generic fix patterns |
| Type Of Material | Data analysis technique |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Leading researchers in the area have asked for updates and are following the project |
| URL | https://github.com/scc-fixie/fix-patterns/ |
| Description | Bloomberg |
| Organisation | Bloomberg |
| Department | Bloomberg UK Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Identify methods for identifying and applying automated program repair. |
| Collaborator Contribution | They provide weekly access for two researchers and are actively contributing to the production of papers and recent surveys. |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Title | AFPEAPR |
| Description | tool to automatically extract fix patterns |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Impact | None as yet |
| Description | Weekly meetings with Bloomberg Fixie Team |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
| Results and Impact | Consulatation re the use of automated program repair in a large financial organisation |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019,2020,2021 |