Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Extracting Concise Bug-Fixing Patches from Human-Written Patches in Version Control Systems. |
| Authors: |
Yanjie Jiang1 yanjiejiang@bit.edu.cn, Hui Liu1 liuhui08@bit.edu.cn, Nan Niu2 nan.niu@uc.edu, Lu Zhang3 zhanglu@sei.pku.edu.cn, Yamin Hu1 ymhug@bit.edu.cn |
| Source: |
ICSE: International Conference on Software Engineering. 5/22/2021, p686-698. 13p. |
| Subjects: |
Revision control (Computer science), Software engineering, Artificial intelligence, Computer software development, Computer science |
| Abstract: |
High-quality and large-scale repositories of real bugs and their concise patches collected from real-world applications are critical for research in the software engineering community. In such a repository, each real bug is explicitly associated with its fix. Therefore, on one side, the real bugs and their fixes may inspire novel approaches for finding, locating, and repairing software bugs; on the other side, the real bugs and their fixes are indispensable for rigorous and meaningful evaluation of approaches for software testing, fault localization, and program repair. To this end, a number of such repositories, e.g., Defects4J, have been proposed. However, such repositories are rather small because their construction involves expensive human intervention. Although bug-fixing code commits as well as associated test cases could be retrieved from version control systems automatically, existing approaches could not yet automatically extract concise bug-fixing patches from bug-fixing commits because such commits often involve bug-irrelevant changes. In this paper, we propose an automatic approach, called BugBuilder, to extracting complete and concise bug-fixing patches from human-written patches in version control systems. It excludes refactorings by detecting refactorings involved in bug-fixing commits, and reapplying detected refactorings on the faulty version. It enumerates all subsets of the remaining part and validates them on test cases. If none of the subsets has the potential to be a complete bug-fixing patch, the remaining part as a whole is taken as a complete and concise bug-fixing patch. Evaluation results on 809 real bug-fixing commits in Defects4J suggest that BugBuilder successfully generated complete and concise bug-fixing patches for forty percent of the bug-fixing commits, and its precision (99%) was even higher than human experts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: |
Engineering Source |
