3 papers
cs.SE2026
Hot Fixing in the Wild
Carol Hanna, Karine Even-Mendoza, W. B. Langdon +3
Despite the operational importance of hot fixes, large-scale evidence on how they reshape routine maintenance workflows, particularly in the era of autonomous coding agents, remain…
cs.SE2025
HotBugs.jar: A Benchmark of Hot Fixes for Time-Critical Bugs
Carol Hanna, Federica Sarro, Mark Harman +1
Hot fixes are urgent, unplanned changes deployed to production systems to address time-critical issues. Despite their importance, no existing evaluation benchmark focuses specifica…
cs.SE2025
LLM-Guided Genetic Improvement: Envisioning Semantic Aware Automated Software Evolution
Karine Even-Mendoza, Alexander Brownlee, Alina Geiger +4
Genetic Improvement (GI) of software automatically creates alternative software versions that are improved according to certain properties of interests (e.g., running-time). Search…