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Questions and Answering forums such as Stack Overflow play an important role in supporting software developers in finding answers to queries related to issues such as software errors and bugs. However, searching through a large set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Fouzi Harrag , Mokdad Khemliche

Bug triaging is a process to decide what to do with newly coming bug reports. In this paper, we have mined association rules for the prediction of bug assignee of a newly reported bug using different bug attributes, namely, severity,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Meera Sharma , Abhishek Tandon , Madhu Kumari , V B Singh

Software companies spend over 45 percent of cost in dealing with software bugs. An inevitable step of fixing bugs is bug triage, which aims to correctly assign a developer to a new bug. To decrease the time cost in manual work, text…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , He Jiang , Yan Hu , Zhilei Ren , Weiqin Zou , Zhongxuan Luo , Xindong Wu

Golang (also known as Go for short) has become popular in building concurrency programs in distributed systems. As the unique features, Go employs lightweight Goroutines to support highly parallelism in user space. Moreover, Go leverages…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Chongxin Zhong , Qidong Zhao , Xu Liu

Tracking user reported bugs requires considerable engineering effort in going through many repetitive reports and assigning them to the correct teams. This paper proposes a neural architecture that can jointly (1) detect if two bug reports…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Lahari Poddar , Leonardo Neves , William Brendel , Luis Marujo , Sergey Tulyakov , Pradeep Karuturi

Bug reports provide critical insights into software quality, yet existing datasets often suffer from limited scope, outdated content, or insufficient metadata for machine learning. To address these limitations, we present GitBugs-a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Avinash Patil , Siru Tao , Aryan Jadon

Bug localization is a crucial aspect of software maintenance, running through the entire software lifecycle. Information retrieval-based bug localization (IRBL) identifies buggy code based on bug reports, expediting the bug resolution…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Feifei Niu , Chuanyi Li , Kui Liu , Xin Xia , David Lo

Developers often spend much effort and resources to debug a program. To help the developers debug, numerous information retrieval (IR)-based and spectrum-based bug localization techniques have been devised. IR-based techniques process…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-07-27 Thong Hoang , Richard J. Oentaryo , Tien-Duy B. Le , David Lo

Bug localization is a tedious activity in the bug fixing process in which a software developer tries to locate bugs in the source code described in a bug report. Since this process is time-consuming and requires additional knowledge about…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Benjamin Ledel , Steffen Herbold

Bug triage is an essential task in software maintenance phase. It assigns developers (fixers) to bug reports to fix them. This process is performed manually by a triager, who analyzes developers profiles and submitted bug reports to make…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Madonna Mayez , Khaled Nagaty , Abeer Hamdy

Bug prediction is the process of training a machine learning model on software metrics and fault information to predict bugs in software entities. While feature selection is an important step in building a robust prediction model, there is…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-13 Haidar Osman , Mohammad Ghafari , Oscar Nierstrasz

A long-standing open challenge for automated program repair is the overfitting problem, which is caused by having insufficient or incomplete specifications to validate whether a generated patch is correct or not. Most available repair…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Omar I. Al-Bataineh , Anastasiia Grishina , Leon Moonen

Bug Localization is the process of locating potential error-prone files or methods from a given bug report and source code. There is extensive research on bug localization in the literature that focuses on applying information retrieval…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Sandeep Muvva , A Eashaan Rao , Sridhar Chimalakonda

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

Recent advances in neural modeling for bug detection have been very promising. More specifically, using snippets of code to create continuous vectors or \textit{embeddings} has been shown to be very good at method name prediction and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-05-14 Jón Arnar Briem , Jordi Smit , Hendrig Sellik , Pavel Rapoport

In software development, fixing bugs is an important task that is time consuming and cost-sensitive. While many approaches have been proposed to automatically detect and patch software code, the strategies are limited to a set of identified…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2015-07-22 Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Despite the advancements in software testing, bugs still plague deployed software and result in crashes in production. When debugging issues -- sometimes caused by "heisenbugs" -- there is the need to interpret core dumps and reproduce the…

Rapid growth of applying Machine Learning (ML) in different domains, especially in safety-critical areas, increases the need for reliable ML components, i.e., a software component operating based on ML. Understanding the bugs…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Mohammad Mehdi Morovati , Amin Nikanjam , Florian Tambon , Foutse Khomh , Zhen Ming , Jiang

Duplicate bug reports make up 42% of all reports in bug tracking systems (e.g., Bugzilla), causing significant maintenance overhead. Hence, detecting and resolving duplicate bug reports is essential for effective issue management.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Usmi Mukherjee , Mohammad Masudur Rahman

Large open-source projects receive a large number of issues (known as bugs), including software defect (i.e., bug) reports and new feature requests from their user and developer communities at a fast rate. The often limited project…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Riley Pierson , Armin Moin