Presentation 2021-03-03
Analysis of the Impact of Automatically Generated Test Cases on the Results of Automatic Bug Repair
Yuga Matsuda, Kyosuke Yamate, Yasutaka Kamei, Naoyasu Ubayashi,
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Abstract(in English) In order to reduce debugging costs in software development, there has been a lot of research on automatic program repair. Test suite based automatic program repair, which has been widely studied, depends on the quality of test cases, but it costs a lot of money to create good quality test cases. Recently, in order to reduce the cost of the testing process, research on automatic test case generation has been conducted. We thought that we could reduce the cost of test case creation by using automatically generated test cases for automatic program repair. In this study, we investigated the effect of automatically generated test cases on the results of automatic program repair, based on the success rate of patch generation. As a result of experiments on actual bugs in OSS projects, it was found that patches were generated for 23 bugs using the automatically generated test cases and for 13 bugs using the manually generated test cases. Only 3 bugs generated patches in common, and the bugs that actually generated patches were different. We also found that the success rate of patch generation differs depending on the coverage, which is the criterion for automatic test case generation.
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Keyword(in English) Automatic program repair / Automatic test case generation
Paper # SS2020-32
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (SS)

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Committee SS
Conference Date 2021/3/3(2days)
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Chair Takashi Kobayashi(Tokyo Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Kozo Okano(Shinshu Univ.)
Secretary Kozo Okano(Hiroshima City Univ.)
Assistant Shinpei Ogata(Shinshu Univ.)

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Registration To Technical Committee on Software Science
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Analysis of the Impact of Automatically Generated Test Cases on the Results of Automatic Bug Repair
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Automatic program repair
Keyword(2) Automatic test case generation
1st Author's Name Yuga Matsuda
1st Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
2nd Author's Name Kyosuke Yamate
2nd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
3rd Author's Name Yasutaka Kamei
3rd Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
4th Author's Name Naoyasu Ubayashi
4th Author's Affiliation Kyushu University(Kyushu Univ.)
Date 2021-03-03
Paper # SS2020-32
Volume (vol) vol.120
Number (no) SS-407
Page pp.pp.25-30(SS),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-02-24 (SS)