Facebook has unveiled a new tool for developers, which aims to automatically fix bugs. Called SapFix, it uses Facebook’s AI to help generate fixes for identified bugs, which are then proposed to engineers for approval and deployment to production. In a post, developers Yue Jia, Ke Mao, and Mark Harman write that SapFix is designed to operate independently, without Sapienz, which is Facebook’s “intelligent automated software testing tool”. It was noted that the tool was unveiled at F8, and has already been deployed in production. The post notes “The process starts with Sapienz, along with Facebook’s Infer static analysis tool, helping localize the point in the code to patch. Once Sapienz and Infer pinpoint a specific portion of code associated with a crash, it can pass that information to SapFix, which automatically picks from a few strategies to generate a patch.” In order to address “high-firing” bugs, SapFix is able to to create patches that can either fully or partially r...
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