Automatically fixing software bugs is a challenging task. While recent work showed that natural language context is useful in guiding bug-fixing models, the approach required prompting developers to provide this context, which was simulated through commit messages written after the bug-fixing code changes were made. We instead propose using bug report discussions, which are available before the task is performed and are also naturally occurring, avoiding the need for any additional information from developers. For this, we augment standard bug-fixing datasets with bug report discussions. Using these newly compiled datasets, we demonstrate that various forms of natural language context derived from such discussions can aid bug-fixing, even leading to improved performance over using commit messages corresponding to the oracle bug-fixing commits.

预审前的语言模型已被证明在许多与软件有关的一代任务中都是有效的。但是，它们不适合编辑任务，因为它们不是为了推理编辑的原因。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个新颖的预处理目标，该目标明确地对编辑进行了建模并使用它来构建Coditt5，这是一种用于软件相关编辑任务的大型语言模型，该任务是在大量源代码和自然语言评论中鉴定的。我们将其对各种下游编辑任务进行微调，包括评论更新，错误修复和自动代码审核。通过优于基于纯生成的模型，我们证明了方法的普遍性及其对编辑任务的适用性。我们还展示了纯生成模型和我们的基于编辑的模型如何通过简单的重读策略相互补充，我们可以通过该策略实现三个下游编辑任务的最新性能。