Software development settings provide a great opportunity for CSCW researchers to study collaborative work. In this paper, we explore a specific work practice called bug reproduction that is a part of the software bug-fixing process. Bug reproduction is a highly collaborative process by which software developers attempt to locally replicate the ‘environment’ within which a bug was originally en...

Software bugs reported by human users and automatic error reporting software are often stored in some bug tracking tools (e.g., Bugzilla and Debbugs). These accumulated bug reports may contain valuable information that could be used to improve the quality of the bug reporting, reduce the quality assurance effort and cost, analyze software reliability, and predict future bug report trend. In thi...

In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised text classification approach for bug triage to avoid the deficiency of labeled bug reports in existing supervised approaches. This new approach combines naive Bayes classifier and expectationmaximization to take advantage of both labeled and unlabeled bug reports. This approach trains a classifier with a fraction of labeled bug reports. Then the appro...

For a given software bug report, identifying an appropriate developer who could potentially fix the bug is the primary task of a bug triaging process. A bug title (summary) and a detailed description is present in most of the bug tracking systems. Automatic bug triaging algorithm can be formulated as a classification problem, which takes the bug title and description as the input, mapping it to...

Existing techniques allocate a bug fixing team using only previous fixed bug reports. Therefore, these techniques may lead to inactive team member allocation as well as fail to include new developers in the suggested list. A Team Allocation approach for ensuring bug assignment to both Existing and New developers (TAEN) is proposed, which uses expertise and recent activities of developers. TAEN ...

In the bug triage we have an unavoidable step of fixing the bugs which helps in correctly assigning a developer to a new bug. Text classification and binary classification techniques are applied to decrease the time cost in manual work and to enhance the working of automatic bug triage. We address the problem of data reduction and hence we combine the instance selection and the feature selectio...

Bug Triaging is a vital part of issue management systems. Bug triaging deals with assigning a developer the task of an incoming bug. This activity is error prone and time consuming if done manually. There is a need for automated support to accelerate this process. The current automated bug triaging systems exploits the text contents of the bug and the tossing relations among the developers. The...

Although bug tracking systems are fundamental to support virtually any software development process, they are currently suboptimal to support the needs and complexities of large communities. This dissertation first presents a study showing empirical evidence that the traditional interface used by current bug tracking systems invites much noise— unreliable, unuseful, and disorganized information...

Bug Triaging is an important aspect of Bug Management in Open Source Systems. Bug Triaging pertains to assignment of a newly opened bug to an appropriate developer for resolution. This task is complicated in an open source environment because of the nature of the Open Source Development. Open Source Software Development comprises of the developers who are volunteers. The volunteers are distribu...

In the bug triage we have an unavoidable step of fixing the bugs which helps in correctly assigning a developer to a new bug. Text classification and binary classification techniques are applied to decrease the time cost in manual work and to enhance the working of automatic bug triage. We address the problem of data reduction and hence we combine the instance selection and the feature selectio...