- author = "Eric Schulte and Stephanie Forrest and Westley Weimer",
- title = "Automated Program Repair through the Evolution of Assembly Code",
- booktitle = "Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering",
- year = "2010",
- pages = "313--316",
- address = "Antwerp",
- month = "20-24 " # sep,
- publisher = "ACM",
- keywords = "genetic algorithms, genetic programming, genetic improvement, APR, SBSE, assembly code, bytecode, evolutionary computation, fault localisation, legacy software, program repair",
- isbn13 = "978-1-4503-0116-9",
-
URL = "
http://www.cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/data/ase2010-asm-preprint.pdf",
-
DOI = "
10.1145/1858996.1859059",
- acmid = "1859059",
- size = "4 pages",
- abstract = "A method is described for automatically repairing legacy software at the assembly code level using evolutionary computation. The technique is demonstrated on Java byte code and x86 assembly programs, showing how to find program variations that correct defects while retaining desired behaviour. Test cases are used to demonstrate the defect and define required functionality. The paper explores advantages of assembly-level repair over earlier work at the source code level; the ability to repair programs written in many different languages; and the ability to repair bugs that were previously intractable. The paper reports experimental results showing reasonable performance of assembly language repair even on non-trivial programs.",
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notes = "Like hummie winner \cite{DBLP:conf/gecco/ForrestNWG09}
but working on assembler code and binary levels.
Suggested by Steff Forrest. No formal Spec, instead
uses only test case. Does not invent new code but moves
existing code about. Again a proportion of programs
cannot be run (eg fail to assemble or link) and are
given fitness zero. Some loop forever and are timed out
after 8 seconds. Only 5+ and one negative test case.
Population size = 40. Uses virtual machine to provide
safety against errors, eg stack smashing. Linux. 7 Unix
utilities (written in in C but compiled to assembler)
On average 63percent of GP runs fixed error.
Cites \cite{10.1109/ASE.2009.15}, \cite{kuhling:2002:EuroGP} and Daikon's ClearView \cite{Perkins:2009:APE:1629575.1629585},
Poster https://www.cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/data/asm-gp-poster.pdf
ASE 2010 broken http://soft.vub.ac.be/ase2010/",
