Detecting Duplicate Bug Reports Techniques

Duplicate bug reports considered harmful ... really?

In a survey we found that most developers have experienced duplicated bug reports, however, only few considered them as a serious problem. This contradicts popular wisdom that considers bug duplicates as a serious problem for open source projects. In the survey, developers also pointed out that the additional information provided by duplicates helps to resolve bugs quicker. In this paper, we th...

Merging Duplicate Bug Reports by Sentence Clustering

Duplicate bug reports are often unfavorable because they tend to take many man hours for being identified as duplicates, marked so and eventually discarded. In this time, no progress occurs on the program in question, and is justifiably an overhead which should be minimized. Considerable research has been carried out to alleviate this problem. Many methods have been proposed for bug report cate...

Assisted Detection of Duplicate Bug Reports

Duplicate bug reports, reports which describe problems or enhancements for which there is already a report in a bug repository, consume time of bug triagers and software developers that might better be spent working on reports that describe unique requests. For many open source projects, the number of duplicate reports represents a significant percentage of the repository, numbering in the thou...

Classification Algorithms for Detecting Duplicate Bug Reports in Large Open Source Repositories

An Exploratory Study of Duplicate Bug Reports in Oss Projects

Open Source Software (OSS) uses open bug repository during development and maintenance, so that both developer and user can reports bugs that they have found. These systems are generally called as bug tracking system or bug repositories. Bug tracking system is open bug repository that is maintained by open source software organizations to track their bugs. In OSS bug reports from all over the w...