Impact of Tool Support in Patch Construction

Koyuncu, Anil; Bissyandé, Tegawendé; Kim, Dongsun; Klein, Jacques; Monperrus, Martin; Le Traon, Yves

Document type :

Communication dans un congrès avec actes

DOI :

10.1145/3092703.3092713

Title :

Impact of Tool Support in Patch Construction

Author(s) :

Koyuncu, Anil [Auteur]
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust [Luxembourg] [SnT]
Bissyandé, Tegawendé [Auteur]
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust [Luxembourg] [SnT]
Kim, Dongsun [Auteur]
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust [Luxembourg] [SnT]
Klein, Jacques [Auteur]
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust [Luxembourg] [SnT]
Monperrus, Martin [Auteur]
Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Le Traon, Yves [Auteur]
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust [Luxembourg] [SnT]

Conference title :

26th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis

City :

Santa Barbara

Country :

Etats-Unis d'Amérique

Start date of the conference :

2017-07-10

Journal title :

ISSTA 2017

Publisher :

ACM

Publication date :

2017

English keyword(s) :

Automation
Debugging
Empirical
Linux
Patch
Repair
Tools

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

English abstract : [en]

In this work, we investigate the practice of patch construction in the Linux kernel development, focusing on the dfferences between three patching processes: (1) patches crafted entirely manually to fix bugs, (2) those ...
Show more >In this work, we investigate the practice of patch construction in the Linux kernel development, focusing on the dfferences between three patching processes: (1) patches crafted entirely manually to fix bugs, (2) those that are derived from warnings of bug detection tools, and (3) those that are automatically generated based on fix patterns. With this study, we provide to the research community concrete insights on the practice of patching as well as how the development community is currently embracing research and commercial patching tools to improve productivity in repair. The result of our study shows that tool-supported patches are increasingly adopted by the developer community while manually-written patches are accepted more quickly. Patch application tools enable developers to remain committed to contributing patches to the code base. Our findings also include that, in actual development processes, patches generally implement several change operationsspread over the code, even for patches fixing warnings by bug detection tools. Finally, this study has shown that there is an opportunity to directly leverage the output of bug detection tools to readily generate patches that are appropriate for fixing the problem and that are consistent with manually-written patches.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

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