Research Topics

Automated Program Repair

Developing techniques to automatically fix software bugs without human intervention.

Automated Fault Localization

Pinpointing the root cause of failures to speed up the debugging process.

Fix Pattern Mining

Learning from historical bug fixes to generate common repair patterns.

Mining Software Repositories

Analyzing codebases and version history to understand software evolution.

AI for SE

Applying machine learning and natural language processing to solve SE problems.

Empirical Software Engineering

Conducting studies to evaluate tools and understand developer behavior.

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Keywords:

bug reportsbug localizationfault localizationbug characteristicsprogram analysisprogram comprehensionmining software repositoriessoftware metricsfix patternspatchesprogram repairdebuggingfix ingredientscode change actionsdonor codepatch generationcode representationspatch assessmentbug classificationrepository analysisvulnerability repairbug detection

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Research Projects:
Can you classify bugs from screenshots of code?

Gather and analyze various from Github towards learning contributions contributions of users and uses quality indicators in these contributions.

mining software repositoriescomputer visionimage processingimage analysisdata miningprogram comprehensionmachine learning
GitHub Repo Quality Analyzer

Gather and analyze various from Github towards learning contributions contributions of users and uses quality indicators in these contributions.

mining software repositoriessoftware metricsprogram analysisnatural language processingempirical software engineeringrepository analysis
Learning from Contributions

Gather and analyze various communication data in software development towards learning contributions and relate them to the characteristics of the software products and processes.

mining software repositoriesempirical software engineeringrepository analysis
Mining software repositories towards understanding code change properties to guide program repair

Building an automated program repair-adapted representation of code that will be leveraged to associate the change intention to various artifacts such as bug reports, test cases.

fix patternscode change actionscode representationsprogram analysispatchesprogram repairempirical software engineering
Developing a History Based Vulnerability Fixer by Leveraging Developer Anomalies

Explore state of the art program repair approaches and learn patterns by capturing the context and the semantic properties in order to identify recurrent patterns of fixes for common security vulnerabilities.

vulnerabilityvulnerability detectionprogram repairfix ingredientscode change actiondonor codepatch generationprogram analysis
Fine-Grained Fix Localization with new embeddings of code

Develop novel approaches to precisely identify fix locations (i.e. which code to fix) when a program crash.

bug reportsbug localizationfault localizationbug characteristicsprogram analysisinformation retrievalmachine learningnlp