Generating Fixes from Object Behavior Anomalies
- ASE 2009
by
Valentin Dallmeier, Andreas Zeller, Bertrand Meyer
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, Auckland, New Zealand, November 2009.
Abstract
Advances in recent years have made it possible in some cases to locate a bug (the source of a failure) automatically. But debugging is also about correcting bugs. Can tools do this automatically? The results reported in this paper, from the new PACHIKA tool, suggest that such a goal may be reachable. PACHIKA leverages differences in program behavior to generate program fixes directly. It automatically summarizes executions to object behavior models, determines differences between passing and failing runs, generates possible fixes, and assesses them via the regression test suite. Evaluated on the ASPECTJ bug history, PACHIKA generates a valid fix for 3 out of 18 crashing bugs; each fix pinpoints the bug location and passes the ASPECTJ test suite.
Keywords
- debugging
- fixing
- object usage patterns
BibTeX Entry
@inproceedings{dallmeier-ase-2009, title = "Generating Fixes from Object Behavior Anomalies", author = "Valentin Dallmeier and Andreas Zeller and Bertrand Meyer", year = "2009", month = nov, address = "Auckland, New Zealand", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 24th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering", location = "Auckland, New Zealand", }