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One of the primary mechanisms by which developers receive feedback about in-field failures of software from users is through bug reports. Unfortunately, the quality of manually written bug reports can vary widely due to the effort required…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Mattia Fazzini , Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal Cardenas , Tyler Wendland , Alessandro Orso , Denys Poshyvanyk

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

One of the key tasks related to ensuring mobile app quality is the reporting, management, and resolution of bug reports. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating various tasks of the bug management…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Jack Johnson , Junayed Mahmud , Tyler Wendland , Kevin Moran , Julia Rubin , Mattia Fazzini

Bug reports are essential for developers to confirm software problems, investigate their causes, and validate fixes. Unfortunately, reports often miss important information or are written unclearly, which can cause delays, increased issue…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Junayed Mahmud , Antu Saha , Oscar Chaparro , Kevin Moran , Andrian Marcus

Software maintenance constitutes a large portion of the software development lifecycle. To carry out maintenance tasks, developers often need to understand and reproduce bug reports. As such, there has been increasing research activity…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Tyler Wendland , Jingyang Sun , Junayed Mahmud , S. M. Hasan Mansur , Steven Huang , Kevin Moran , Julia Rubin , Mattia Fazzini

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

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

Mobile application development is a fast-paced process where maintaining high-quality user experiences is crucial. Bug reproduction, a key aspect of maintaining app quality, often faces significant challenges. Specifically, when…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Hongrong Yin , Jinhong Huang , Yao Li , Yunwei Dong , Tao Zhang

Mobile developers face unique challenges when detecting and reporting crashes in apps due to their prevailing GUI event-driven nature and additional sources of inputs (e.g., sensor readings). To support developers in these tasks, we…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Christopher Vendome , Denys Poshyvanyk

In the development and maintenance of Android apps, the quick and accurate reproduction of user-reported bugs is crucial to ensure application quality and improve user satisfaction. However, this process is often time-consuming and complex.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Xiangyang Xiao , Huaxun Huang , Rongxin Wu

Bug tracking systems play a crucial role in software maintenance, yet developers frequently struggle with low-quality user-submitted reports that omit essential details such as Steps to Reproduce (S2R), Observed Behavior (OB), and Expected…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Emre Furkan Akyol , Mehmet Dedeler , Eray Tüzün

Software auditing is an increasingly critical task in the era of rapid code generation. While LLM-based auditors have demonstrated strong potential, their effectiveness remains limited by misalignment with the highly complex,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jinyao Guo , Chengpeng Wang , Dominic Deluca , Jinjie Liu , Zhuo Zhang , Xiangyu Zhang

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as tablets and smartphones near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of these apps has been increasing, making development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Kevin Moran , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Denys Poshyvanyk

Software development teams generally welcome any effort to expose bugs in their code base. In this work, we build on the hypothesis that mobile apps from the same category (e.g., two web browser apps) may be affected by similar bugs in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Xunzhu Tang , Haoye Tian , Pingfan Kong , Kui Liu , Jacques Klein , Tegawendé F. Bissyande

The modern software development landscape has seen a shift in focus toward mobile applications as "smart" devices near ubiquitous adoption. Due to this trend, the complexity of mobile applications has been increasing, making development and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran

Bug reporting is a key feature of mobile applications, as it enables developers to collect information about faults that escaped testing and thus affected end-users. This paper explores the idea of allowing end-users to immediately report…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Elena Masserini , Daniela Micucci , Leonardo Mariani

Smartphones and tablets have established themselves as mainstays in the modern computing landscape. It is conceivable that in the near future such devices may supplant laptops and desktops, becoming many users primary means of carrying out…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-01-19 Kevin Moran

Mobile apps often suffer from functional bugs that do not cause crashes but instead manifest as incorrect behaviors under specific user interactions. Such bugs are difficult to detect automatically because they often lack explicit test…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Yiheng Xiong , Shiwen Song , Bo Ma , Ting Su , Xiaofei Xie

In community-based software development, developers frequently rely on live-chatting to discuss emergent bugs/errors they encounter in daily development tasks. However, it remains a challenging task to accurately record such knowledge due…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Lin Shi , Fangwen Mu , Yumin Zhang , Ye Yang , Junjie Chen , Xiao Chen , Hanzhi Jiang , Ziyou Jiang , Qing Wang

Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using the software. As such, researchers have committed considerable resources toward automating bug replay to expedite…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Sidong Feng , Chunyang Chen
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