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the tendency of automatically generated fixes to pass the given tests while failing to repair the underlying fault.

In software engineering, patch overfitting refers to the tendency of automatically generated fixes to pass the given tests while failing to repair the underlying fault. This meaning comes from Smith (2015) in Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering.[1]

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Smith, E. K., Barr, E. T., Le Goues, C., & Brun, Y. (2015). Is the cure worse than the disease? overfitting in automated program repair. Proceedings of the 2015 10th Joint Meeting on Foundations of Software Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1145/2786805.2786825

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