CoCoNuT: combining context-aware neural translation models using ensemble for program repair

Authors: Thibaud Lutellier, Hung Viet Pham, Lawrence Pang, Yitong Li, Moshi Wei, Lin Tan - Proceedings of the 29th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2020 cited by 329

Automated generate-and-validate (GV) program repair techniques (APR) typically rely on hard-coded rules, thus only fixing bugs following specific fix patterns. These rules require a significant amount of manual effort to discover and it is hard to adapt these rules to different programming languages.