Program Repair Competition

Automated Program Repair(APR) is a rapidly developing technology that can assist developers in fixing software system errors. An essential part of any scientific work is a fair and comprehensive evaluation of the state-of-the-art techniques. At present there is no publicly available standard mechanism to perform comparisons for program repair. In this paper, we propose such a standardization in the form of a competition to foster comparability, advancing the state-of-the-art capabilities and to pave the path for the next-generation repair technology.