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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

Improved test case prioritization means that software developers can detect and fix more software faults sooner than usual. But is there one "best" prioritization algorithm? Or do different kinds of projects deserve special kinds of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-02-23 Xiao Ling , Rishabh Agrawal , Tim Menzies

The number of bug reports in complex software increases dramatically. Now bugs are triaged manually, bug triage or assignment is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task. Without knowledge about the structure of the software, testers often…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-06-07 Deqing Wang , Hui Zhang , Rui Liu , Mengxiang Lin , Wenjun Wu , Hongping Hu

Software maintenance and evolution involves critical activities for the success of software projects. To support such activities and keep code up-to-date and error-free, software communities make use of issue trackers, i.e., tools for…

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

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

Maintenance is a dominant component of software cost, and localizing reported defects is a significant component of maintenance. We propose a scalable approach that leverages the natural language present in both defect reports and source…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2012-11-14 Zachary P. Fry , Westley Weimer

Issue assignment is a critical process in software maintenance, where new issue reports are validated and assigned to suitable developers. However, manual issue assignment is often inconsistent and error-prone, especially in large…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Arsham Khosravani , Alireza Hoseinpour , Arshia Akhavan , Mehdi Keshani , Abbas Heydarnoori

Bug localization in multi-repository microservice architectures is challenging due to the semantic gap between natural language bug reports and code, LLM context limitations, and the need to first identify the correct repository. We propose…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Amirkia Rafiei Oskooei , S. Selcan Yukcu , Mehmet Cevheri Bozoglan , Mehmet S. Aktas

This paper presents a large-scale study that investigates the bug resolution characteristics among popular Github projects written in different programming languages. We explore correlations but, of course, we cannot infer causation.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Jie M. Zhang , Feng Li , Dan Hao , Meng Wang , Hao Tang , Lu Zhang , Mark Harman

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional coding capability. However, as another critical component of programming proficiency, the debugging capability of LLMs remains relatively unexplored. Previous evaluations of LLMs'…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Runchu Tian , Yining Ye , Yujia Qin , Xin Cong , Yankai Lin , Yinxu Pan , Yesai Wu , Haotian Hui , Weichuan Liu , Zhiyuan Liu , Maosong Sun

Large language models (LLMs) have rapidly advanced natural language processing, driving significant breakthroughs in tasks such as text generation, machine translation, and domain-specific reasoning. The field now faces a critical dilemma…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Jiya Manchanda , Laura Boettcher , Matheus Westphalen , Jasser Jasser

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

Recent findings suggest that Information Retrieval (IR)-based bug localization techniques do not perform well if the bug report lacks rich structured information (eg relevant program entity names). Conversely, excessive structured…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Mohammad Masudur Rahman , Chanchal K. Roy

Bug fixing and code generation have been core research topics in software development for many years. The recent explosive growth in Large Language Models has completely transformed these spaces, putting in reach incredibly powerful tools…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Avinash Anand , Akshit Gupta , Nishchay Yadav , Shaurya Bajaj

As part of the process of resolving issues submitted by users via bug reports, Android developers attempt to reproduce and observe the failures described by the bug report. Due to the low-quality of bug reports and the complexity of modern…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Zhaoxu Zhang , Robert Winn , Yu Zhao , Tingting Yu , William G. J. Halfond

Context: Learning-based automatic program repair techniques are showing promise to provide quality fix suggestions for detected bugs in the source code of the software. These tools mostly exploit historical data of buggy and fixed code…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Faria Huq , Masum Hasan , Mahim Anzum Haque Pantho , Sazan Mahbub , Anindya Iqbal , Toufique Ahmed

Fixing bugs in a timely manner lowers various potential costs in software maintenance. However, manual bug fixing scheduling can be time-consuming, cumbersome, and error-prone. In this paper, we propose the Schedule and Dependency-aware Bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Hadi Jahanshahi , Mucahit Cevik

Bug reports document unexpected behaviors in software, enabling developers to understand, validate, and fix bugs. Unfortunately, a significant portion of bug reports is of low quality, which poses challenges for developers in terms of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-27 Junayed Mahmud

Bugs are inevitable in software development, and their reporting in open repositories can enhance software transparency and reliability assessment. This study aims to extract information from the issue tracking system Jira and proposes a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Hasan Yagiz Ozkan , Poul Einer Heegaard , Wolfgang Kellerer , Carmen Mas-Machuca