GenProg: A Generic Method for Automatic Software Repair

This paper describes GenProg, an automated method for repairing defects in off-the-shelf, legacy programs without formal specifications, program annotations, or special coding practices. GenProg uses an extended form of genetic programming to evolve a program variant that retains required functional...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 54 - 72
Main Authors:	Le Goues, Claire, Nguyen, ThanhVu, Forrest, Stephanie, Weimer, Westley
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York IEEE 01.01.2012 IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:	Algorithms Analysis Automatic programming Automation Benchmarks Coding Computer bugs Computer programming Computer programs Computer science Computers corrections Debugging Defects Degradation Digital Object Identifier Encoding Maintenance Maintenance engineering Repair Software Software engineering Software quality Studies Success Syntactics Testing testing and debugging
ISSN:	0098-5589, 1939-3520
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