Automated Program Repair

Department of Computer Science, Faculty, News Media, Programming Languages & Software Engineering

Fixing bugs can be a tedious and time consuming work for programmers. Instead of having the programmer manually debug and fix faulty code, can the system suggest possible patches for the code? NUS Computing Professor Abhik Roychoudhury discussed his research in automated program repair and how this field of research can help programmers automatically rectify software errors and vulnerabilities.

Communications of the ACM, 22 November 2019

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