Software Engineering Institute

This video shows easier, higher-tech ways to view and selectively accept Redemption’s code repairs. The other methods are described in detail in the Redemption documentation in the "doc" directory. For example, all repaired files have a line added at the top #include "acr.h” to include the repair macros. Each repair can be reviewed with inspection of a small number of code lines. The repairs shown in this video include (1) initialization of a variable before use and (2) inserting a check for null prior to dereferencing a pointer.

The Redemption release provides scripts and instructions that automate creation of merge requests with the repairs using GitLab. With GitLab, with a click, reviewers can remove any particular repair they don’t want from the merge request. The Redemption release even includes a demo for users to test their GitLab system with Redemption, which includes a codebase that gets repaired. Other editors like Visual Studio Code provide similar per-click rejection of edits, even used outside of a CI system.