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 # Code of FixMiner
 
+Reference: [FixMiner: Mining Relevant Fix Patterns for Automated Program Repair](http://arxiv.org/pdf/1810.01791) (Empirical Software Engineering, [doi:10.1007/s10664-019-09780-z](https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-019-09780-z))
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 ## Prerequisites
 
 redis should be installed on the machine.