Auto-fix your bugs with UT and SBSE

Posted: June 3rd, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Software Engineering | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment »

Your mother probably taught you to write unit test cases for all your code? She probably insisted that you should write a new test case for every reported bug? You probably wondered why, but still followed her advice like any dutiful child?

Now, the answer is here. With the help of Search Based Software Engineering (SBSE) and Genetic Programming (GP) some researchers have shown how you can use all your hard earned test cases to auto-fix your bugs.

One Comment on “Auto-fix your bugs with UT and SBSE”

  1. 1 Agile Project Manager » Blog Archive » Automated Bug Fixing, Innovation and the Small World of SE Research said at 20:51 on March 8th, 2012:

    [...] automated bug fixing, we can automatically fix 50% of all bugs at a cost of $8. A fantastic research result from the [...]

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