Bug reports retrieval using Self-organizing Map

Author

Do Rêgo, Renata L M E ; Ribeiro, Márcio ; Aleixo, Emanuella ; De Souza, Renata M C R

Author_Institution

Centro de Inf., UFPE, Recife

fYear

2008

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

325

Abstract

An important process when implementing complex software systems consist of documenting the bugs found in that software. However, since many developers are working at the same time on the project, a bug may easily be reported multiple times, resulting in duplicated bug reports. Therefore, developers responsible for fixing bugs may spend time and effort reading and trying to understand two bugs that actually are the same. This way, we propose in this paper an approach for identifying duplicated bug reports that combines document indexing and self-organizing maps (SOM). The results of our experiments show that at most 69% of duplicated bug reports were identified, representing saving of time and effort for the developers.

Keywords

program debugging; self-organising feature maps; bug reports retrieval; complex software systems; self-organizing map; Clustering algorithms; Communication system software; Computer bugs; Control systems; Indexing; Information retrieval; Optimized production technology; Self organizing feature maps; Software development management; Software systems;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information Management, 2008. ICDIM 2008. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2916-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2917-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746786

Filename

4746786