APR 2026 – Preliminary Table of Contents

7th International Workshop on Automated Program Repair (APR 2026)

Frontmatter

Papers

FitGen: Validation and Guided Repair of LLM Generated Executable Fitness Functions for Search Based Software Testing
Md Al Muzahid Nayim, Faezeh Rajabi Kouchi, Amit Kumar Sikder, and Myra B. Cohen
(Iowa State University, USA)

Article Search Artifacts Available Article: asews26aprmain-p20-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844668

FitGen: Artifact for Validation and Guided Repair of LLM Generated Executable Fitness Functions for Search Based Software Testing (doi:10.5281/zenodo.22239514): This artifact contains the source code, benchmark programs, prompts, generated fitness functions, experimental results, and supporting scripts used in the evaluation of FitGen. Detailed setup, dependencies, repository structure, and reproduction instructions are provided in the included README.md file.

AnchorRepair: A Reference-Guided Dual-Agent Framework for Code Translation Repair
Jiajun Sun, Yaocai Zhao, Fengjie Li, and Jiajun Jiang
(Tianjin University, China)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p28-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844669

Failure Explanations: The Missing Abstraction between Debugging and Repair
Marius Smytzek
(CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p34-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844670

RAWL: Retrieval-Augmented Smart Contract Repair using Weisfeiler-Lehman-Based Retrieval
Chihiro Kado and Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya
(University of Osaka, Japan)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p43-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844671

Execution Features and Their Relations to Faults: A Replication on Defects4J
Marius Smytzek
(CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Germany)

Article Search Artifacts Available Article: asews26aprmain-p44-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844672

Execution Features and Their Relations to Faults (doi:10.5281/zenodo.22125531): This repository is the replication package for a cross-language study of execution-feature fault localization. It ports the original Python [Execution-Feature-Driven Debugging](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14909966) study to Java, records the same execution features on Defects4J, and repeats the correlation, ...

Whose Oracle Is It? The Authority Problem in Deployed Agentic Program Repair
Bardia Mohammadi and Laurent Bindschaedler
(MPI-SWS, Germany)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p56-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844673

Test Cases Considered Harmful
Steven P. Reiss
(Brown University, USA)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p63-p (type: Short Paper (4 pages)) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844674

Evaluating Symbolic Feedback Granularity for LLM-Based Program Repair
Taoer Guo
(New York University, USA)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p71-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844675

DafnyFix: Single-Transformation Automated Repair in Dafny
Isabel Amaral, Álvaro F. Silva, João F. Ferreira, and Alexandra Mendes
(INESC TEC, Portugal; University of Porto, Portugal; INESC-ID, Portugal)

Article Search Article: asews26aprmain-p73-p (type: Full Paper) doi:10.1145/3843776.3844676

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