We present a new system, Genesis, that processes human patches to automatically infer code transforms for automatic patch generation. We present results that characterize the effectiveness of the Genesis inference algorithms and the complete Genesis patch generation system working with real-world patches and defects collected from 372 Java projects. To the best of our knowledge, Genesis is the first system to automatically infer patch generation transforms or candidate patch search spaces from previous successful patches. • Software and its engineering → Automatic programming; Software testing and debugging;
They further proposed a new system, Genesis REF , which can automatically infer patch generation transforms from developer submitted patches for program repair.
Automatic inference of code transforms for patch generation
ESEC/FSE 2017
Computer Science