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Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair: 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020

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Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair: 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020. / Nowack, V.; Bowes, D.; Counsell, S. et al.
2020. 311-312 Paper presented at 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020, Cancun, Mexico.

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Nowack, V, Bowes, D, Counsell, S, Hall, T, Haraldsson, S, Winter, E, Woodward, J & SIGEVO, ACM 2020, 'Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair: 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020', Paper presented at 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020, Cancun, Mexico, 8/07/20 - 12/07/20 pp. 311-312. https://doi.org/10.1145/3377929.3389912

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Nowack, V., Bowes, D., Counsell, S., Hall, T., Haraldsson, S., Winter, E., Woodward, J., & SIGEVO, ACM. (2020). Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair: 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020. 311-312. Paper presented at 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020, Cancun, Mexico. https://doi.org/10.1145/3377929.3389912

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Nowack V, Bowes D, Counsell S, Hall T, Haraldsson S, Winter E et al.. Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair: 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020. 2020. Paper presented at 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020, Cancun, Mexico. doi: 10.1145/3377929.3389912

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Nowack, V. ; Bowes, D. ; Counsell, S. et al. / Exploiting fault localisation for efficient program repair : 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020. Paper presented at 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO 2020, Cancun, Mexico.2 p.

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abstract = "Search-based program repair generates variants of a defective program to find its repair. This could reduce the time and effort necessary for the manual software development and maintenance. However, applying even a limited set of mutations on a small piece of code (that repairs only trivial defects) generates a huge number of possible program variants (also called a search space). The reduction of the search space, while preserving the number and quality of repairs, would make these tools more efficient and practical. We present an end-to-end repair tool for Java programs. It localises lines of source code that introduced a defect into the history of the program's development and applies a set of mutations targeting only these lines. In the reduced search space, our tool repaired defects covered by failing tests in an open-source Java program. {\textcopyright} 2020 Owner/Author.",
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