stjordanis / angelix

Semantic program repair system for C programs

Angelix

Semantics-based automated program repair tool for C programs. Angelix fixes bugs manifested by failing test cases and searches for the minimal change in order to preserve the original source code. Powered by KLEE symbolic execution engine and Z3 SMT solver.

If you use Angelix in your research project, please include the following citation:

@inproceedings{mechtaev2016angelix,
    title={Angelix: Scalable multiline program patch synthesis via symbolic analysis},
    author={Mechtaev, Sergey and Yi, Jooyong and Roychoudhury, Abhik},
    booktitle={Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Software Engineering},
    pages={691--701},
    year={2016},
    organization={ACM}
}

Installation

Angelix is distributed in source code form and pre-installed in VirtualBox image. The VirtualBox image also contains Angelix ICSE'16 and SemFix ICSE'13 evaluation results.

Option 1: VirtualBox image

You can request VirtualBox image with pre-installed Angelix. Note that it contains an outdated version of Angelix and is distributed only for the demonstration purpose.

Option 2: Build from source

The following is required to install Angelix from source code:

• 40GB Hard drive
• 8GB Memory
• Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit*

* Angelix can run on other 64-bit Linux distributions, however installation scripts were tested only on Ubuntu 14.04. If you want to install Angelix on a different system, you may need to modify Makefile and activate scripts.

Clone repository recursively:

git clone --recursive https://github.com/mechtaev/angelix.git

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install git wget xz-utils build-essential time
sudo apt-get install curl dejagnu subversion bison flex bc libcap-dev
sudo apt-get install cmake libncurses5-dev libboost-all-dev

Install Java 8 (for Ubuntu 14.04) and Maven:

sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:webupd8team/java
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install oracle-java8-installer
sudo apt-get install maven

Install SBT by following intructions.

Set Angelix environment:

. activate

Download and build required modules:

make default

Run tests:

make test

Documentation

• Tutorial
• Manual
• Troubleshooting

To set optimal configuration for your subject, refer to the Configuration section of the manual.

Changelog

1.1 (2017-Mar-20)

Implemented enhancements:

• New experimental synthesizer (--use-nsynth option)
• Automatically instrumenting printf arguments with ANGELIX_OUTPUT (--instr-printf option)
• Finding all patches (--generate-all option)
• Improved language support

Fixed bugs:

• Various bugs in frontend, inference and synthesis.

1.0 (2016-Jul-8)

Implemented enhancements:

• Supported NULL pointer, break and continue statements, 64-bit long in ANGELIX_OUTPUT.

Fixed bugs:

• Various reported bugs in frontend and localization.

icse16 (2016-Feb-19)

Initial release used to reproduce ICSE'16 experiments. Available on VirtualBox VM.

Publications

Angelix: Scalable Multiline Program Patch Synthesis via Symbolic Analysis. S. Mechtaev, J. Yi, A. Roychoudhury. ICSE'16. [pdf]

DirectFix: Looking for Simple Program Repairs. S. Mechtaev, J. Yi, A. Roychoudhury. ICSE'15. [pdf]

SemFix: Program Repair via Semantic Analysis. H.D.T. Nguyen, D. Qi, A. Roychoudhury, S. Chandra. ICSE'13. [pdf]

Contributors

Principal investigator:

• Abhik Roychoudhury

Developers:

• Sergey Mechtaev
• Jooyong Yi

Contributors:

• Shin Hwei Tan
• Yulis