机器生成的正确补丁长什么样？[ESEM 19] How Different Is It Between Machine-Generated and Developer-Provided Patches

标题：机器生成的正确补丁长什么样？[ESEM 19] How Different Is It Between Machine-Generated and Developer-Provided Patches?

前言

本文旨在阅读 ESEM 2019 文章：How Different Is It Between Machine-Generated and Developer-Provided Patches?

基本信息

Wang, S., Wen, M., Chen, L., Yi, X., & Mao, X. How Different Is It Between Machine-Generated and Developer-Provided Patches?.

基本内容

主要是一个empirical study

人为研究当前APR（即软件自动修复）工具生成的正确补丁和开发者（人为）补丁的区别。

这里列举其中发现：

we do not need to fix bugs exactly like how developers do since we observe that 25.4% (45/177) of the correct patches generated by APR techniques are syntactically different from developer-provided ones; 2)

1）不必和开发者补丁一样。因为四分之一的机器正确补丁 和开发者提供的补丁在词法结构上就是不相等的。
（都是哪些？）

APR techniques tend to generate patches that are different from those by developers for bugs with large patch sizes

2）我猜是因为当前的APR工具还局限于简单的修改（simple edits）

3）

idea来源

针对当前的补丁评价方式（2种：人为检查，测试用例验证）的局限性，
认为应该先分析一下当前正确补丁（机器生成）和开发者补丁的区别。

亮点

1）A. Data Selection写的比较详细，很严谨

不足

词句摘抄

• Two widely adopted ways to approach this challenge, in- cluding manually checking and validating using automated gen- erated tests, are biased (i.e., suffering from subjectivity and low precision respectively).
• To this end, we first present a Literature Re- view (LR) on the reported correct patches generated by recent techniques on the Defects4J benchmark and collect 177 correct patches after a process of sanity check.
• Our study not only verifies the conclusions from previous studies but also highlights implications for future study towards assessing patch correctness.
• The basic pipeline that most of APR systems follow
• Do APR tools tend to generate correct patches but different from the developer-provided ones for bugs with cer- tain characteristics？

相关文章

• Wen, M., Chen, J., Wu, R., Hao, D., & Cheung, S. C. (2017). An empirical analysis of the influence of fault space on search-based automated program repair. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.05172.

总结

以上。