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.