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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Cao, Helinga; b | Han, Donga; b | Chu, Yonghea; b; * | Tian, Fangchaoa; b | Wang, Yuna; b | Liu, Yua | Jia, Junliangc | Ge, Haoyanga
Affiliations: [a] College of Information Science and Engineering, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China | [b] Henan International Joint Laboratory of Grain Information Processing, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China | [c] Henan Kingsource Information Technology, Zhengzhou, China
Correspondence: [*] Corresponding author: Yonghe Chu, Henan International Joint Laboratory of Grain Information Processing, Henan University of Technology, Zhengzhou, China. E-mail: chuyonghe@haut.edu.cn.
Abstract: Automatic program repair (APR) is crucial to improve software quality. Recently, neural machine translation (NMT) based modeling for bug fixes has demonstrated great potential. However, these approaches still have two major challenges. One is that their search space is limited due to the out-of-vocabulary (OOV) problem. The other is that the NMT-based APR models tend to ignore past translation information, which often leads to over-translation and under-translation. To address the above challenges, we propose MNRepair, a new NMT-based APR approach that combines multiple mechanisms to fix bugs in source code. Specifically, we devise an encoder-decoder NMT framework with the attention mechanism. Our framework combines the copy mechanism to overcome the OOV problem that occurs with source code. To deal with the over-translation and under-translation, we utilize a coverage mechanism to record past translation information. MNRepair is able to capture a wide range of repair operators and fix 26 bugs in Defects4J. Our evaluation shows the effectiveness of multiple mechanisms in the repair process.
Keywords: Automatic program repair, neural machine translation, multiple mechanisms
DOI: 10.3233/JIFS-234037
Journal: Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 7859-7873, 2024
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