Viktor Csuvik's work on automatically repairing software bugs at the University of Szeged received the SZTE Innovation Award. In 2020 the same work also won the award for the most innovative student research (TDK) work. The supervisor was Dr. László Vidács.
The approach uses a genetic algorithm, an idea borrowed from biology. Tested on 127 real program bugs, it produced fixes for 24: 5 were identical to the fixes the developers wrote, and 7 behaved identically. A fix took about 1.5 hours on average. The starting question was simple: “Why not automate the process?”
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