Improving Bug Assignment with Bug Tossing Graphs and Bug Similarities

Author

Chen, Liguo ; Wang, Xiaobo ; Liu, Chao

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 April 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

In open-source software development the bug report is usually assigned to a developer for bug fixing. A large number of bug reports are tossed (reassigned) to other developers, for example because the bugs have been assigned by mistake. The tossing events increase bug-fix time. In order to quickly identify the fixer to bug reports we present an approach based on the bug tossing history and textual similarities between bug reports. This proposed approach is evaluated on Eclipse and Mozilla. The results show that our approach can significantly improve the efficiency of bug assignment: the bug resolver is often identified with fewer tossing events.

Keywords

program debugging; public domain software; software engineering; Eclipse; Mozilla; bug assignment; bug fixing; bug similarities; bug tossing graphs; open-source software development; Application software; Bioinformatics; Collision avoidance; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer science; Computer simulation; Humans; Medical simulation; Navigation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science (ICBECS), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5315-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBECS.2010.5462287

Filename

5462287