Natural Program Repair

Project Information

NATURAL

Grant agreement ID: 949014

DOI

10.3030/949014

EC signature date 11 September 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 January 2027

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 495 988,00

EU contribution

€ 1 495 988,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITE DU LUXEMBOURG
Luxembourg

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Publications

Conference proceedings (16)

CREF: An LLM-Based Conversational Software Repair Framework for Programming Tutors

Author(s): Boyang Yang, Haoye Tian, Weiguo Pian, Haoran Yu, Haitao Wang, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Shunfu Jin
Published in: Proceedings of the 33rd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2025, Page(s) 882-894
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3650212.3680328

Revisiting Test Cases to Boost Generate-and-Validate Program Repair

Author(s): Jingtang Zhang, Kui Liu, Dongsun Kim, Li Li, Zhe Liu, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), Issue 27 September 2021 - 01 October 2021, 2021, ISBN 978-1-6654-2882-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icsme52107.2021.00010

CodeAgent: Autonomous Communicative Agents for Code Review

Author(s): Xunzhu Tang, Kisub Kim, Yewei Song, Cedric Lothritz, Bei Li, Saad Ezzini, Haoye Tian, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2024, Page(s) 11279-11313
Publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics
DOI: 10.18653/v1/2024.emnlp-main.632

Automatic Generation of Test Cases based on Bug Reports: a Feasibility Study with Large Language Models

Author(s): Laura Plein, Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2025, Page(s) 360-361
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3639478.3643119

Is this Change the Answer to that Problem? Correlating Descriptions of Bug and Code Changes for Evaluating Patch Correctness

Author(s): Haoye Tian, Xunzhu Tang, Andrew Habib, Shangwen Wang, Kui Liu, Xin Xia, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the 37th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2022
Publisher: IEEE

CodeGrid: A Grid Representation of Code

Author(s): Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Earl T. Barr, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the 32nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, Issue 17-21 July 2023, 2023, Page(s) 1357–1369, ISBN 979-8-4007-0221-1
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery
DOI: 10.1145/3597926.3598141

DataRecipe --- How to Cook the Data for CodeLLM?

Author(s): Kisub Kim, Jounghoon Kim, Byeongjo Park, Dongsun Kim, Chun Yong Chong, Yuan Wang, Tiezhu Sun, Daniel Tang, Jacques Klein, Tegawende F. Bissyande
Published in: Proceedings of the 39th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 2025, Page(s) 1206-1218
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3691620.3695593

Revisiting Test Cases to Boost Generate-and-Validate Program Repair

Author(s): Zhang Jingtang, Bissyandé Tegawendé F., Liu Zhe, Li Li, Kim Dongsun, Kui Liu
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2022, ISBN 978-1-6654-2883-5
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.26226/morressier.613b5418842293c031b5b5e6

Practical Program Repair via Preference-based Ensemble Strategy

Author(s): Wenkang Zhong; Chuanyi Li; Kui Liu; Tongtong Xu; Jidong Ge; Tegawende F. Bissyande; Bin Luo; Vincent Ng
Published in: Proceedings of the 46th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Software Engineering, Issue 46, 2024
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3597503.3623310

SmartGift: Learning to Generate Practical Inputs for Testing Smart Contracts.

Author(s): Teng Zhou; Kui Liu; Li Li; Zhe Liu; Jacques Klein; Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME), 2021, Page(s) 23-34, ISBN 978-1-6654-2882-8
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/icsme52107.2021.00009

MetaTPTrans: a meta learning approach for multilingual code representation learning

Author(s): Weiguo Pian, Hanyu Peng, Xunzhu Tang, Tiezhu Sun, Haoye Tian, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the Thirty-Seventh AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Issue 585, 2023, Page(s) 5239–5247, ISBN 978-1-57735-880-0
Publisher: AAAI Press
DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v37i4.25654

Finding data compatibility bugs with JSON subschema checking

Author(s): Andrew Habib, Avraham Shinnar, Martin Hirzel, Michael Pradel
Published in: Proceedings of the 30th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis, 2025, Page(s) 620-632
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3460319.3464796

Natural Language to Code: How Far Are We?

Author(s): Shangwen Wang; Mingyang Geng; Bo Lin; Zhensu Sun; Ming Wen; Yepang Liu; Li Li; Tegawendé F. Bissyandé; Xiaoguang Mao
Published in: Proceedings of the 31st ACM Joint European Software Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering (ESEC/FSE), Issue 31, 2023, Page(s) 375-387
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3611643.3616323

Learning to Represent Patches

Author(s): Xunzhu Tang, Haoye Tian, Zhenghan Chen, Weiguo Pian, Saad Ezzini, Abdoul Kader Kabore, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, Tegawende F. Bissyande
Published in: Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM 46th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings, 2025, Page(s) 396-397
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3639478.3643521

PEELER: Learning to Effectively Predict Flakiness without Running Tests

Author(s): Yihao Qin, Shangwen Wang, Kui Liu, Bo Lin, Hongjun Wu, Li Li, Xiaoguang Mao, Bissyandé Tegawendé F.
Published in: Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, 2022
Publisher: IEEE

AudioTest: Prioritizing Audio Test Cases

Author(s): Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang, Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Proceedings of the ACM on Software Engineering, Issue 2, 2025, Page(s) 707-730, ISSN 2994-970X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
DOI: 10.1145/3728907

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Pre-Implementation Method Name Prediction for Object-Oriented Programming

Author(s): Shangwen Wang, Ming Wen, Bo Lin, Yepang Liu, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Xiaoguang Mao
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2023, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3597203

Predicting Patch Correctness Based on the Similarity of Failing Test Cases

Author(s): Haoye Tian, Yinghua Li, Weiguo Pian, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Kui Liu, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 1049331X, 2022, Page(s) 1-30, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3511096

Dependabot and security pull requests: large empirical study

Author(s): Hocine Rebatchi, Tégawendé F. Bissyandé, Naouel Moha
Published in: Empirical Software Engineering, Issue 29, 2024, ISSN 1382-3256
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-024-10523-y

What You See is What it Means! Semantic Representation Learning of Code based on Visualization and Transfer Learning

Author(s): Patrick Keller, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Laura Plein, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 31, 2022, Page(s) 1-34, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3485135

Prioritizing test cases for deep learning-based video classifiers

Author(s): Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang, Lei Ma, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Empirical Software Engineering, Issue 29, 2024, ISSN 1382-3256
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-024-10520-1

Big Code Search: A Bibliography

Author(s): Kisub Kim, Sankalp Ghatpande, Dongsun Kim, Xin Zhou, Kui Liu, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon
Published in: ACM Computing Surveys, Issue 56, 2024, Page(s) 1–49, ISSN 0360-0300
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3604905

The Best of Both Worlds: Combining Learned Embeddings with Engineered Features for Accurate Prediction of Correct Patches

Author(s): Haoye Tian, Kui Liu, Yinghua Li, Abdoul Kader Kaboré, Anil Koyuncu, Andrew Habib, Li Li, Junhao Wen, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 1-34, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3576039

An Empirical Study of Ai Techniques in Mobile Applications

Author(s): Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang, Haoye Tian, Tiezhu Sun, Zhijie Wang, Lei Ma, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. BISSYANDE
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, 2024, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4876287

Where were the repair ingredients for Defects4j bugs?Exploring the impact of repair ingredient retrieval on the performance of 24 program repair systems

Author(s): Deheng Yang, Kui Liu, Dongsun Kim, Anil Koyuncu, Kisub Kim, Haoye Tian, Yan Lei, Xiaoguang Mao, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Empirical Software Engineering, Issue 26, 2021, ISSN 1382-3256
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-021-10003-7

App review driven collaborative bug finding

Author(s): Xunzhu Tang, Haoye Tian, Pingfan Kong, Saad Ezzini, Kui Liu, Xin Xia, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: Empirical Software Engineering, Issue 29, 2024, ISSN 1382-3256
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-024-10489-x

Reliable Fix Patterns Inferred from Static Checkers for Automated Program Repair

Author(s): Kui Liu, Jingtang Zhang, Li Li, Anil Koyuncu, Dongsun Kim, Chunpeng Ge, Zhe Liu, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 32, 2023, Page(s) 1-38, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3579637

GraphPrior: Mutation-based Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks

Author(s): Xueqi Dang; Yinghua Li; Mike Papadakis; Jacques Klein; Tegawendé F. Bissyandé; Yves Le Traon
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 33, 2023, Page(s) 1-40, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3607191

iBiR: Bug-report-driven Fault Injection

Author(s): Ahmed Khanfir, Anil Koyuncu, Mike Papadakis, Maxime Cordy, Tegawende F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Yves Le Traon
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 32, 2023, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3542946

Just-in-Time Detection of Silent Security Patches

Author(s): Xunzhu Tang, Kisub Kim, Saad Ezzini, Yewei Song, Haoye Tian, Jacques Klein, Tegawende Bissyande
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, 2025, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3749370

You Don’t Have to Say Where to Edit! jLED—Joint Learning to Localize and Edit Source Code

Author(s): Weiguo Pian, Yinghua Li, Haoye Tian, Tiezhu Sun, Yewei Song, Xunzhu Tang, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Issue 34, 2025, Page(s) 1-27, ISSN 1049-331X
Publisher: Association for Computing Machinary, Inc.
DOI: 10.1145/3712187

Test Input Prioritization for Machine Learning Classifiers

Author(s): Xueqi Dang, Yinghua Li, Mike Papadakis, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Yves Le Traon
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Issue 50, 2024, Page(s) 413-442, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2024.3350019

DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization

Author(s): Kisub Kim, Sankalp Ghatpande, Kui Liu, Anil Koyuncu, Dongsun Kim, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Jacques Klein, Yves LeTraon
Published in: Journal of Systems and Software, Issue 01641212, 2022, ISSN 0164-1212
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2022.111300

Test Input Prioritization for Graph Neural Networks

Author(s): Yinghua Li, Xueqi Dang, Weiguo Pian, Andrew Habib, Jacques Klein, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Issue 50, 2024, Page(s) 1396-1424, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2024.3385538

Fusing Code Searchers

Author(s): Shangwen Wang, Mingyang Geng, Bo Lin, Zhensu Sun, Ming Wen, Yepang Liu, Li Li, Tegawendé F. Bissyandé, Xiaoguang Mao
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Issue 50, 2024, Page(s) 1852-1866, ISSN 0098-5589
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tse.2024.3403042