FixMiner: Mining Relevant Fix Patterns for Automated Program Repair

Understand

Patching is a common activity in software development.

• It is generally performed on a source code base to address bugs or add new functionalities.
• In this context, given the recurrence of bugs across projects, the associated similar patches can be leveraged to extract generic fix actions.
• While the literature includes various approaches leveraging similarity among patches to guide program repair, these approaches often do not yield fix patterns that are tractable and reusable as actionable input to APR systems.