Improving bug report quality by predicting correct component in bug reports
by Indu Chawla; Sandeep Kumar Singh
International Journal of Computational Intelligence Studies (IJCISTUDIES), Vol. 8, No. 1/2, 2019

Abstract: Bugs reported in bug tracking systems contain important information in the form of standard and mandatory fields like version, operating system, product, component and type of the bug, etc. Unfortunately, the information provided in these fields is sometimes missing and inaccurate. Inaccurate information makes the program understanding difficult and inflicts delay in the process of bug fixing. Many times, these fields are reassigned during the bug fixing time even more than ones. This study explores the automatic identification of correct component field in a bug report. This study proposes using fuzzy similarity-based approach for identifying the correct component as well as predicting the possibility of component reassignment. Experimentation is done using bug reports of three open source projects from eclipse. The experimental results show that fuzzy similarity approach performs better as compared to state of art approaches on two out of three datasets in terms of precision score.

Online publication date: Tue, 26-Feb-2019

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