Title :

How to Design a Program Repair Bot? Insights from the Repairnator Project

Author(s) :

Urli, Simon [Auteur]
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Yu, Zhongxing [Auteur]
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Seinturier, Lionel [Auteur]
Université de Lille
Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Self-adaptation for distributed services and large software systems [SPIRALS]
Monperrus, Martin [Auteur]
KTH Royal Institute of Technology [Stockholm] [KTH]

Conference title :

40th International Conference on Software Engineering, Track Software Engineering in Practice

City :

Gothenburg

Country :

Suède

Start date of the conference :

2018-05-27

HAL domain(s) :

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

English abstract : [en]

Program repair research has made tremendous progress over the last few years, and software development bots are now being invented to help developers gain productivity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of a " ...
Show more >Program repair research has made tremendous progress over the last few years, and software development bots are now being invented to help developers gain productivity. In this paper, we investigate the concept of a " program repair bot " and present Repairnator. The Repairnator bot is an autonomous agent that constantly monitors test failures, reproduces bugs, and runs program repair tools against each reproduced bug. If a patch is found, Repairnator bot reports it to the developers. At the time of writing, Repairnator uses three different program repair systems and has been operating since February 2017. In total, it has studied 11 317 test failures over 1 609 open-source software projects hosted on GitHub, and has generated patches for 17 different bugs. Over months, we hit a number of hard technical challenges and had to make various design and engineering decisions. This gives us a unique experience in this area. In this paper, we reflect upon Repairnator in order to share this knowledge with the automatic program repair community.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Comment :

update for oadoi on Nov 02 2018

Collections :

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

Source :

Harvested from HAL