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In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised text classification approach for bug triage to avoid the deficiency of labeled bug reports in existing supervised approaches. This new approach combines naive Bayes classifier and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , He Jiang , Zhilei Ren , Jun Yan , Zhongxuan Luo

For a given software bug report, identifying an appropriate developer who could potentially fix the bug is the primary task of a bug triaging process. A bug title (summary) and a detailed description is present in most of the bug tracking…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Senthil Mani , Anush Sankaran , Rahul Aralikatte

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars each year and take up ~50% of the development time. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Parvez Mahbub , Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Avinash Gopal

Bugs are prevalent in software development. To improve software quality, bugs are filed using a bug tracking system. Properties of a reported bug would consist of a headline, description, project, product, component that is affected by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-29 Amit Kumar , Manohar Madanu , Hari Prakash , Lalitha Jonnavithula , Srinivasa Rao Aravilli

Software defects are a major threat to the reliability of computer systems. The literature shows that more than 30% of bug reports submitted in large software projects are misclassified (i.e., are feature requests, or mistakes made by the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Renato Andrade , César Teixeira , Nuno Laranjeiro , Marco Vieira

Bug localization refers to the identification of source code files which is in a programming language and also responsible for the unexpected behavior of software using the bug report, which is a natural language. As bug localization is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Partha Chakraborty , Venkatraman Arumugam , Meiyappan Nagappan

Static analysis is one of the most widely adopted techniques to find software bugs before code is put in production. Designing and implementing effective and efficient static analyses is difficult and requires high expertise, which results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Andrew Habib , Michael Pradel

About 40% of software bug reports are duplicates of one another, which pose a major overhead during software maintenance. Traditional techniques often focus on detecting duplicate bug reports that are textually similar. However, in bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-12-21 Sigma Jahan , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Managing large numbers of incoming bug reports and finding the most critical issues in hardware development is time consuming, but crucial in order to reduce development costs. In this paper, we present an approach to predict the time to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-29 Thi Thu Hang Do , Markus Dobler , Niklas Kühl

In software industries, individuals at different levels from customer to an engineer apply diverse mechanisms to detect to which class a particular bug should be allocated. Sometimes while a simple search in Internet might help, in many…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Sunil Joy Dommati , Ruchi Agrawal , Ram Mohana Reddy G. , S. Sowmya Kamath

Software bugs cost the global economy billions of dollars annually and claim ~50\% of the programming time from software developers. Locating these bugs is crucial for their resolution but challenging. It is even more challenging in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Sigma Jahan , Mehil B. Shah , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Considerable effort in software research and practice is spent on bugs. Finding, reporting, tracking, triaging, attempting to fix them automatically, detecting "bug smells" -these comprise a substantial portion of large projects' time and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Gray Widder , Claire Le Goues

Statistical fault localization is an easily deployed technique for quickly determining candidates for faulty code locations. If a human programmer has to search the fault beyond the top candidate locations, though, more traditional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Ezekiel Soremekun , Lukas Kirschner , Marcel Böhme , Andreas Zeller

Bug fixing is a complex and time-consuming task in software development. Bug localization research tends to focus on the accuracy of automated tools that suggest source code files for developers to look at. However, little is known about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Pablo Diaz Pedreira , Tamara Lopez , Michel Wermelinger

Developers often use crash reports to understand the root cause of bugs. However, locating the buggy source code snippet from such information is a challenging task, mainly when the log database contains many crash reports. To mitigate this…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Marcos Medeiros , Uirá Kulesza , Roberta Coelho , Rodrigo Bonifácio , Christoph Treude , Eiji Adachi

Software bugs claim approximately 50% of development time and cost the global economy billions of dollars. Once a bug is reported, the assigned developer attempts to identify and understand the source code responsible for the bug and then…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-29 Parvez Mahbub , Ohiduzzaman Shuvo , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Bug localisation, the study of developing methods to localise the files requiring changes to resolve bugs, has been researched for a long time to develop methods capable of saving developers' time. Recently, researchers are starting to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Jesse Maarleveld , Jiapan Guo , Daniel Feitosa

During the life cycle of software development, developers have to fix different kinds of bugs reported by testers or end users. The efficiency and effectiveness of fixing bugs have a huge impact on the reliability of the software as well as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-11-12 Jaechang Nam , Ning Chen

Most bug assignment approaches utilize text classification and information retrieval techniques. These approaches use the textual contents of bug reports to build recommendation models. The textual contents of bug reports are usually of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Mamdouh Alenezi , Shadi Banitaan , Mohammad Zarour

Software developers attempt to reproduce software bugs to understand their erroneous behaviours and to fix them. Unfortunately, they often fail to reproduce (or fix) them, which leads to faulty, unreliable software systems. However, to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-08-12 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Foutse Khomh , Marco Castelluccio