Automatic Program Repair

Following along with the theme of this issue of IEEE Software, this column reports on papers about automatic program repair (APR) from the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE20), the 35th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering Workshops (ASEW20), and the 13th IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Validation and Verification (ICST20). Feedback or suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices included in the column, please send us and the authors a note about your experiences.