A Bug Rule Based Technique with Feedback for Classifying Bug Reports

Author

Zhang, Tao ; Lee, Byungjeong

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea

fYear

2011

fDate

Aug. 31 2011-Sept. 2 2011

Firstpage

336

Lastpage

343

Abstract

As software programs become increasingly large and complex, it is more important to improve the quality of software maintenance. Many software programs rely on bug reports to correct errors in maintenance activities. Bug tracking systems were developed to guide maintenance activities of software developers. However, due to the excessive number of duplicate bug reports, developers spend much time to identify these bug reports. In this study, in order to save developers´ time in software maintenance, we propose a bug rule based classification technique to categorize bug reports. By utilizing developer feedback mechanism in the technique, it distinguishes duplicate and valid bug reports and is expected to improve the accuracy of bug reports retrieval. Finally, we show the feasibility of this technique in experiment and case study.

Keywords

pattern classification; program debugging; software maintenance; software quality; bug reports classification; bug reports retrieval; bug rule based classification technique; bug rule based technique; bug tracking systems; developer feedback mechanism; duplicate bug reports; maintenance activity; software developers; software maintenance quality; software programs; Classification algorithms; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Computer bugs; Crawlers; Software; Taxonomy; bug report classification; bug tracking system; developer feedback; software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer and Information Technology (CIT), 2011 IEEE 11th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Pafos

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0383-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4388-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2011.90

Filename

6036786