- author = "Thomas Ackling and Bradley Alexander and Ian Grunert",
- title = "Evolving patches for software repair",
- booktitle = "GECCO '11: Proceedings of the 13th annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation",
- year = "2011",
- editor = "Natalio Krasnogor and Pier Luca Lanzi and Andries Engelbrecht and David Pelta and Carlos Gershenson and Giovanni Squillero and Alex Freitas and Marylyn Ritchie and Mike Preuss and Christian Gagne and Yew Soon Ong and Guenther Raidl and Marcus Gallager and Jose Lozano and Carlos Coello-Coello and Dario Landa Silva and Nikolaus Hansen and Silja Meyer-Nieberg and Jim Smith and Gus Eiben and Ester Bernado-Mansilla and Will Browne and Lee Spector and Tina Yu and Jeff Clune and Greg Hornby and Man-Leung Wong and Pierre Collet and Steve Gustafson and Jean-Paul Watson and Moshe Sipper and Simon Poulding and Gabriela Ochoa and Marc Schoenauer and Carsten Witt and Anne Auger",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-0557-0",
- pages = "1427--1434",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic improvement, APR, SBSE, Debugging, fault-repair, Python",
- month = "12-16 " # jul,
- organisation = "SIGEVO",
- address = "Dublin, Ireland",
-
URL = "
https://hdl.handle.net/2440/70777",
-
DOI = "
doi:10.1145/2001576.2001768",
- publisher = "ACM",
- publisher_address = "New York, NY, USA",
- size = "8 pages",
- abstract = "Defects are a major concern in software systems. Unsurprisingly, there are many tools and techniques to facilitate the removal of defects through their detection and localisation. However, there are few tools that attempt to repair defects. To date, evolutionary tools for software repair have evolved changes directly in the program code being repaired. In this work we describe an implementation: pyEDB, that encodes changes as a series of code modifications or patches. These modifications are evolved as individuals. We show pyEDB to be effective in repairing some small errors, including variable naming errors in Python programs. We also demonstrate that evolving patches rather than whole programs simplifies the removal of spurious errors.",
-
notes = "Sofware bugs cost 2 10**10 dollar pa. Repairs 5
relational operators and wrong name. AST. tracing
program execution. mod-tables like gramatical
evolution. Tarantula. 32 bit GA. Examples: middleFunc
and Facebook smallworld.
Also known as \cite{2001768} GECCO-2011 A joint meeting of the twentieth international conference on genetic algorithms (ICGA-2011) and the sixteenth annual genetic programming conference (GP-2011)",
