Keep the Conversation Going: Fixing 162 out of 337 bugs for $0.42 each using ChatGPT

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.00385v2
• Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2024 20:45:33 GMT
• Title: Keep the Conversation Going: Fixing 162 out of 337 bugs for $0.42 each using ChatGPT
• Authors: Chunqiu Steven Xia, Lingming Zhang,
• Abstract summary: Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate patches for buggy programs. Recent APR work has been focused on leveraging modern Large Language Models (LLMs) to directly generate patches for APR. We propose ChatRepair, the first fully automated conversation-driven APR approach.
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• Abstract: Automated Program Repair (APR) aims to automatically generate patches for buggy programs. Recent APR work has been focused on leveraging modern Large Language Models (LLMs) to directly generate patches for APR. Such LLM-based APR tools work by first constructing an input prompt built using the original buggy code and then queries the LLM to generate patches. While the LLM-based APR tools are able to achieve state-of-the-art results, it still follows the classic Generate and Validate repair paradigm of first generating lots of patches and then validating each one afterwards. This not only leads to many repeated patches that are incorrect but also miss the crucial information in test failures as well as in plausible patches. To address these limitations, we propose ChatRepair, the first fully automated conversation-driven APR approach that interleaves patch generation with instant feedback to perform APR in a conversational style. ChatRepair first feeds the LLM with relevant test failure information to start with, and then learns from both failures and successes of earlier patching attempts of the same bug for more powerful APR. For earlier patches that failed to pass all tests, we combine the incorrect patches with their corresponding relevant test failure information to construct a new prompt for the LLM to generate the next patch. In this way, we can avoid making the same mistakes. For earlier patches that passed all the tests, we further ask the LLM to generate alternative variations of the original plausible patches. In this way, we can further build on and learn from earlier successes to generate more plausible patches to increase the chance of having correct patches. While our approach is general, we implement ChatRepair using state-of-the-art dialogue-based LLM -- ChatGPT. By calculating the cost of accessing ChatGPT, we can fix 162 out of 337 bugs for \$0.42 each!

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