{"id":193459,"date":"2024-07-24T10:24:59","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/novel-approach-improves-automatic-software-repair-by-generating-test-cases"},"modified":"2024-07-24T10:24:59","modified_gmt":"2024-07-24T15:24:59","slug":"novel-approach-improves-automatic-software-repair-by-generating-test-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/novel-approach-improves-automatic-software-repair-by-generating-test-cases","title":{"rendered":"Novel approach improves automatic software repair by generating test cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/novel-approach-improves-automatic-software-repair-by-generating-test-cases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>IMDEA Software researchers Facundo Molina, Juan Manuel Copia and Alessandra Gorla present FIXCHECK, a novel approach to improve patch fix analysis that combines static analysis, randomized testing and large language models.<\/p>\n<p>Their innovations, embodied in the paper: \u201cImproving Patch Correctness Analysis via Random Testing and Large Language Models\u201d were presented at the International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation (<a href=\"https:\/\/conf.researchr.org\/home\/icst-2024\" target=\"_blank\">ICST 2024<\/a>), and additional details are <a href=\"https:\/\/zenodo.org\/doi\/10.5281\/zenodo.10498173\" target=\"_blank\">available<\/a> on the <i>Zenodo<\/i> server.<\/p>\n<p>Generating <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/patches\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">patches<\/a> that fix software defects is a crucial task in the maintenance of software systems. Typically, software defects are reported via <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/test+cases\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">test cases<\/a>, which unveil undesirable behaviors in the software.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IMDEA Software researchers Facundo Molina, Juan Manuel Copia and Alessandra Gorla present FIXCHECK, a novel approach to improve patch fix analysis that combines static analysis, randomized testing and large language models. Their innovations, embodied in the paper: \u201cImproving Patch Correctness Analysis via Random Testing and Large Language Models\u201d were presented at the International Conference on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193459\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}