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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Using Developer Discussions to Guide Fixing Bugs in Software
%A Panthaplackel, Sheena
%A Gligoric, Milos
%A Li, Junyi Jessy
%A Mooney, Raymond
%Y Goldberg, Yoav
%Y Kozareva, Zornitsa
%Y Zhang, Yue
%S Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022
%D 2022
%8 December
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
%F panthaplackel-etal-2022-using
%X Automatically fixing software bugs is a challenging task. While recent work showed that natural language context is useful in guiding bug-fixing models, the approach required prompting developers to provide this context, which was simulated through commit messages written after the bug-fixing code changes were made. We instead propose using bug report discussions, which are available before the task is performed and are also naturally occurring, avoiding the need for any additional information from developers. For this, we augment standard bug-fixing datasets with bug report discussions. Using these newly compiled datasets, we demonstrate that various forms of natural language context derived from such discussions can aid bug-fixing, even leading to improved performance over using commit messages corresponding to the oracle bug-fixing commits.
%R 10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.169
%U https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.169
%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.findings-emnlp.169
%P 2292-2301

Markdown (Informal)

[Using Developer Discussions to Guide Fixing Bugs in Software](https://aclanthology.org/2022.findings-emnlp.169) (Panthaplackel et al., Findings 2022)

• Using Developer Discussions to Guide Fixing Bugs in Software (Panthaplackel et al., Findings 2022)

ACL

• Sheena Panthaplackel, Milos Gligoric, Junyi Jessy Li, and Raymond Mooney. 2022. Using Developer Discussions to Guide Fixing Bugs in Software. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022, pages 2292–2301, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Association for Computational Linguistics.