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This paper proposes a supervised machine learning approach for predicting the root cause of a given bug report. Knowing the root cause of a bug can help developers in the debugging process - either directly or indirectly by choosing proper…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Thomas Hirsch , Birgit Hofer

Managing issue reports is essential for the evolution and maintenance of software systems. However, manual issue management tasks such as triaging, prioritizing, localizing, and resolving issues are highly resource-intensive for projects…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ahmed Adnan , Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro

Context: Addressing user requests in the form of bug reports and Github issues represents a crucial task of any successful software project. However, user-submitted issue reports tend to widely differ in their quality, and developers spend…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Andrea Di Sorbo , Gerardo Canfora , Sebastiano Panichella

AI-agents help developers in different coding tasks, such as developing new features, fixing bugs, and reviewing code. Developers can write a Github issue and assign it to an AI-agent like Copilot for implementation. Based on the issue and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Mohammed Sayagh

GitHub and GitLab are widely used collaborative platforms whose issue-tracking systems contain large volumes of unstructured text, including logs, code snippets, and configuration examples. This creates a significant risk of accidental…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Zahin Wahab , Gias Uddin , Rifat Shahriyar

Social coding platforms, such as GitHub, serve as laboratories for studying collaborative problem solving in open source software development; a key feature is their ability to support issue reporting which is used by teams to discuss tasks…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-11 Ayesha Enayet , Gita Sukthankar

One of the issues faced by the maintainers of popular open source software is the triage of newly reported issues. Many of the issues submitted to issue trackers are questions. Many people ask questions on issue trackers about their problem…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Aidin Rasti

Version control systems are integral to software development, with GitHub emerging as a popular online platform due to its comprehensive project management tools, including issue tracking and pull requests. However, GitHub lacks a direct…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Rifat Ara Proma , Paul Rosen

An essential aspect of prioritizing incident tickets for resolution is efficiently labeling tickets with fine-grained categories. However, ticket data is often complex and poses several unique challenges for modern machine learning methods:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Zhexiong Liu , Cris Benge , Siduo Jiang

Technical debt (TD) refers to suboptimal choices during software development that achieve short-term goals at the expense of long-term quality. Although developers often informally discuss TD, the concept has not yet crystalized into a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-31 Ipek Ozkaya , Zachary Kurtz , Robert L. Nord , Raghvinder S. Sangwan , Satish M. Srinivasan

Modern programming languages like Java require runtime systems to support the implementation and deployment of software applications in diverse computing platforms and operating systems. These runtime systems are normally developed in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Salma Begum Tamanna , Gias Uddin , Lan Xia , Longyu Zhang

Large software organizations handle many customer support issues every day in the form of bug reports, feature requests, and general misunderstandings as submitted by customers. Strategies to gather, analyze, and negotiate requirements are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Lloyd Montgomery

The goal of our project is to develop an accurate tagger for questions posted on Stack Exchange. Our problem is an instance of the more general problem of developing accurate classifiers for large scale text datasets. We are tackling the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Sanket Mehta , Shagun Sodhani

Security issue reports are the primary means of informing development teams of security risks in projects, but little is known about current practices. We aim to understand the characteristics of these reports in open-source projects and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Noah Bühlmann , Mohammad Ghafari

Development bots are used on Github to automate repetitive activities. Such bots communicate with human actors via issue comments and pull request comments. Identifying such bot comments allows preventing bias in socio-technical studies…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Mehdi Golzadeh , Alexandre Decan , Eleni Constantinou , Tom Mens

Developers often struggle to navigate an Open Source Software (OSS) project's issue-tracking system and find a suitable task. Proper issue labeling can aid task selection, but current tools are limited to classifying the issues according to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Joseph Vargovich , Fabio Santos , Jacob Penney , Marco A. Gerosa , Igor Steinmacher

This paper illustrates an empirical study of the working efficiency of machine learning techniques in classifying code review text by semantic meaning. The code review comments from the source control repository in GitHub were extracted for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Shadikur Rahman , Umme Ayman Koana , Hasibul Karim Shanto , Mahmuda Akter , Chitra Roy , Aras M. Ismael

This is the world of information. The ever growing field Information Technology has its many advanced notable features which made it what it was now today. In this world, the information has to be processed, clearly distributed and must be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2013-09-06 A. S. Syed Fiaz , N. Devi , S. Aarthi

Agile teams juggle multiple tasks so professionals are often assigned to multiple projects, especially in service organizations that monitor and maintain a large suite of software for a large user base. If we could predict changes in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Rahul Krishna , Amritanshu Agrawal , Akond Rahman , Alexander Sobran , Tim Menzies

GitHub plays a critical role in modern software supply chains, making its security an important research concern. Existing studies have primarily focused on CI/CD automation, collaboration patterns, and community management, while abuse…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuli Cheng , Xiaoyu Zhang , Jiongchi Yu , Shiqing Ma , Chao Shen , Yang Liu