Programming mistakes of all kinds-in source code, configurations, tests, or other artifacts-are a wide-ranging and expensive problem. Developers dedicate a significant proportion of engineering time and effort to finding and fixing bugs in their code, businesses lose market share when vulnerabilities in the software they sell impact customers, and overall productivity is impacted by software that does not work as intended or is prone to vulnerabilities.1 Rapidly finding and fixing bugs and vulnerabilities only grows in importance as software is continuously evolving and deployed and as society becomes increasingly dependent on software systems in all aspects of modern life. Speaking to this general problem, this special issue of IEEE Software addresses recent advances in research and practice in automatic software repair.

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 自动程序修复


源代码、配置、测试或其他工件中的各种编程错误是一个范围广泛且代价高昂的问题。开发人员花费大量的工程时间和精力来查找和修复代码中的错误，当他们销售的软件中的漏洞影响客户时，企业就会失去市场份额，并且整体生产力会受到无法按预期工作或容易出现问题的软件的影响。漏洞。1 随着软件不断发展和部署，以及社会在现代生活的各个方面越来越依赖软件系统，快速查找和修复错误和漏洞只会变得越来越重要。针对这个普遍问题，本期 IEEE Software 解决了自动软件修复研究和实践的最新进展。