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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

Bug localization aims to reduce debugging time by recommending program elements that are relevant for a specific bug report. To date, researchers have primarily addressed this problem by applying different information retrieval techniques…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Agnieszka Ciborowska , Michael J. Decker , Kostadin Damevski

Debugging is considered as a rigorous but important feature of software engineering process. Since more than a decade, the software engineering research community is exploring different techniques for removal of faults from programs but it…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Safeeullah Soomro , Mohammad Riyaz Belgaum , Zainab Alansari , Mahdi H. Miraz

Multiple approaches have been proposed to automatically recommend potential developers who can address bug reports. These approaches are typically designed to work for any bug report submitted to any software project. However, we conjecture…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Yang Song , Oscar Chaparro

Developers build all the software artifacts in development. Existing work has studied the social behavior in software repositories. In one of the most important software repositories, a bug repository, developers create and update bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-18 Jifeng Xuan , He Jiang , Zhilei Ren , Weiqin Zou

Real bug fixes found in open source repositories seem to be the perfect source for learning to localize and repair real bugs. However, the absence of large scale bug fix collections has made it difficult to effectively exploit real bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Cedric Richter , Heike Wehrheim

Static analysis is one of the most widely adopted techniques to find software bugs before code is put in production. Designing and implementing effective and efficient static analyses is difficult and requires high expertise, which results…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Andrew Habib , Michael Pradel

TypeScript has rapidly become a popular language for modern web development, yet its effect on software faults remains poorly understood. This paper presents the first large-scale empirical study of bugs in real-world TypeScript projects.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-01-30 TianYi Tang , Saba Alimadadi , Nick Sumner

Debugging is a central yet complex activity in software engineering. Prior studies have documented debugging strategies and tool usage, but little theory explains how experienced developers reason about bugs in large, real-world codebases.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Haolin Li , Michael Coblenz

Modern software development and operations rely on monitoring to understand how systems behave in production. The data provided by application logs and runtime environment are essential to detect and diagnose undesired behavior and improve…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jeanderson Barros Cândido , Maurício Finavaro Aniche , Arie van Deursen

Latency and cost of Internet-based services are encouraging the use of application-level caching to continue satisfying users' demands, and improve the scalability and availability of origin servers. Despite its popularity, this level of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Jhonny Mertz , Ingrid Nunes

Considerable effort in software research and practice is spent on bugs. Finding, reporting, tracking, triaging, attempting to fix them automatically, detecting "bug smells" -these comprise a substantial portion of large projects' time and…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-14 David Gray Widder , Claire Le Goues

As collaborative coding environments make it easier to contribute to software projects, the number of developers involved in these projects keeps increasing. This increase makes it more difficult for code reviewers to deal with buggy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Filipe Falcão , Caio Barbosa , Baldoino Fonseca , Alessandro Garcia , Márcio Ribeiro , Rohit Ghey

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

In this work, we investigate the practice of patch construction in the Linux kernel development, focusing on the differences between three patching processes: (1) patches crafted entirely manually to fix bugs, (2) those that are derived…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-12-20 Anil Koyuncu , Tegawendé F. Bissyandé , Dongsun Kim , Jacques Klein , Martin Monperrus , Yves Le Traon

Bug localization is an important aspect of software maintenance because it can locate modules that should be changed to fix a specific bug. Our previous study showed that the accuracy of the information retrieval (IR)-based bug localization…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Aoi Takahashi , Natthawute Sae-Lim , Shinpei Hayashi , Motoshi Saeki

Context: Many studies consider the relation between individual aspects of the software engineering process and bug-introduction, e.g., software testing and code review. These studies typically only identify correlations between their set of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Lukas Schulte , Anamaria Mojica-Hanke , Mario Linares-Vásquez , Steffen Herbold

Many researchers have studied the behaviour of successful developers while debugging desktop software. In this paper, we investigate the embedded-software debugging by intermediate programmers through an exploratory study. The bugs are…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-04-12 Pansy Arafa , Daniel Solomon , Samaneh Navabpour , Sebastian Fischmeister

Automated issue fixing is a critical task in software debugging and has recently garnered significant attention from academia and industry. However, existing fixing techniques predominantly focus on the repair phase, often overlooking the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Jianming Chang , Xin Zhou , Lulu Wang , David Lo , Bixin Li

Bug triage can be defined as the process of assigning a developer to a bug report. The duty of the bug triage team is to study the developers profiles well in order to make an appropriate match between the developers and the incoming bug…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-02-04 Madonna Mayez , Khaled Nagaty , Abeer Hamdy