Recurring bug fixes in object-oriented programs

Author

Nguyen, Tung Thanh ; Nguyen, Hoan Anh ; Pham, Nam H. ; Al-Kofahi, Jafar ; Nguyen, Tien N.

Author_Institution

Electr. & Comput. Eng. Dept., Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA, USA

Volume

1

fYear

2010

fDate

2-8 May 2010

Firstpage

315

Lastpage

324

Abstract

Previous research confirms the existence of recurring bug fixes in software systems. Analyzing such fixes manually, we found that a large percentage of them occurs in code peers, the classes/methods having the similar roles in the systems, such as providing similar functions and/or participating in similar object interactions. Based on graph-based representation of object usages, we have developed several techniques to identify code peers, recognize recurring bug fixes, and recommend changes for code units from the bug fixes of their peers. The empirical evaluation on several open-source projects shows that our prototype, FixWizard, is able to identify recurring bug fixes and provide fixing recommendations with acceptable accuracy.

Keywords

graph theory; object-oriented programming; program debugging; public domain software; graph-based representation; object-oriented programs; open-source projects; recurring bug fixes; software systems; Character recognition; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Object recognition; Peer to peer computing; Prototypes; Shape;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering, 2010 ACM/IEEE 32nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cape Town

ISSN

0270-5257

Print_ISBN

978-1-60558-719-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1145/1806799.1806847

Filename

6062099