Geunseok Yang, Byungjeong Lee, Journal of Internet Computing and Services, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 129-137, Oct. 2020
10.7472/jksii.2020.21.5.129, Full Text:
Keywords: SeqGAN Algorithm, Bug Report, Software Bug Repair, Software Maintenance

Abstract

Recently, software size and program code complexity have increased due to application to various fields of software. Accordingly, the existence of program bugs inevitably occurs, and the cost of software maintenance is increasing. In open source projects, developers spend a lot of debugging time when solving a bug report assigned. To solve this problem, in this paper, we apply SeqGAN algorithm to software bug repair. In detail, the SeqGAN model is trained based on the source code. Open similar source codes during the learning process are also used. To evaluate the suitability for the generated candidate patch, a fitness function is applied, and if all test cases are passed, software bug correction is considered successful. To evaluate the efficiency of the proposed model, it was compared with the baseline, and the proposed model showed better repair.

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