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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

Automatically locating a bug within a large codebase remains a significant challenge for developers. Existing techniques often struggle with generalizability and deployment due to their reliance on application-specific data and large model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Mahinthan Chandramohan , Dai Quoc Nguyen , Padmanabhan Krishnan , Jovan Jancic

Bug reports are common artefacts in software development. They serve as the main channel for users to communicate to developers information about the issues that they encounter when using released versions of software programs. In the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Arthur D. Sawadogo , Quentin Guimard , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Abdoul Kader Kaboré , Jacques Klein , Naouel Moha

Software testing is a core discipline in software engineering where a large array of research results has been produced, notably in the area of automatic test generation. Because existing approaches produce test cases that either can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Laura Plein , Wendkûuni C. Ouédraogo , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé

Fault-detection, localization, and repair methods are vital to software quality; but it is difficult to evaluate their generality, applicability, and current effectiveness. Large, diverse, realistic datasets of durably-reproducible faults…

Natural language elements in source code, e.g., the names of variables and functions, convey useful information. However, most existing bug detection tools ignore this information and therefore miss some classes of bugs. The few existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Michael Pradel , Koushik Sen

Many Duplicate Bug Report Detection (DBRD) techniques have been proposed in the research literature. The industry uses some other techniques. Unfortunately, there is insufficient comparison among them, and it is unclear how far we have…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Ting Zhang , DongGyun Han , Venkatesh Vinayakarao , Ivana Clairine Irsan , Bowen Xu , Ferdian Thung , David Lo , Lingxiao Jiang

Bugs that surface in mobile applications can be difficult to reproduce and fix due to several confounding factors including the highly GUI-driven nature of mobile apps, varying contextual states, differing platform versions and device…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran , Richard Bonett , Carlos Bernal-Cardenas , Brendan Otten , Daniel Park , Denys Poshyvanyk

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

Resolving bugs in the maintenance phase of software is a complicated task. Bug assignment is one of the main tasks for resolving bugs. Some Bugs cannot be fixed properly without making design decisions and have to be assigned to designers,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Reza Sepahvand , Reza Akbari , Behnaz Jamasb , Sattar Hashemi , Omid Boushehrian

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

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

Datasets play an important role in the advancement of software tools and facilitate their evaluation. BugSwarm is an infrastructure to automatically create a large dataset of real-world reproducible failures and fixes. In this paper, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-10-30 David A. Tomassi , Cindy Rubio-González

Traditional bug-tracking systems rely heavily on manual reporting, reproduction, classification, and resolution, involving multiple stakeholders such as end users, customer support, developers, and testers. This division of responsibilities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Utku Boran Torun , Mehmet Taha Demircan , Mahmut Furkan Gön , Eray Tüzün

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

The task of finding the best developer to fix a bug is called bug triage. Most of the existing approaches consider the bug triage task as a classification problem, however, classification is not appropriate when the sets of classes change…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-01-17 Denis Sushentsev , Aleksandr Khvorov , Roman Vasiliev , Yaroslav Golubev , Timofey Bryksin

With the proliferation of multi-core hardware, parallel programs have become ubiquitous. These programs have their own type of bugs known as concurrency bugs and among them, data race bugs have been mostly in the focus of researchers over…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Ali Tehrani , Mohammed Khaleel , Reza Akbari , Ali Jannesari

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

Many automated test generation techniques have been developed to aid developers with writing tests. To facilitate full automation, most existing techniques aim to either increase coverage, or generate exploratory inputs. However, existing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Sungmin Kang , Juyeon Yoon , Shin Yoo

Software bug reports often lack crucial information (e.g., steps to reproduce), which makes bug resolution challenging. Developers thus ask follow-up questions to capture additional information. However, according to existing evidence, bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Usmi Mukherjee , Mohammad Masudur Rahman