Title :
Perspectives on bugs in the Debian bug tracking system
Author :
Davies, Julius ; Zhang, Hanyu ; Nussbaum, Lucas ; German, Daniel M.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Abstract :
Bugs in Debian differ from regular software bugs. They are usually associated with packages, instead of software modules. They are caused and fixed by source package uploads instead of code commits. The majority are reported by individuals who appear in the bug database once, and only once. There also exists a small group of bug reporters with over 1,000 bug reports each to their name. We also explore our idea that a high bug-frequency for an individual package might be an indicator of popularity instead of poor quality.
Keywords :
program debugging; software quality; Debian bug tracking system; bug database; bug-frequency; software bug; software quality; source package upload; Cascading style sheets; Computer bugs; Data engineering; Informatics; Open source software; Prediction algorithms; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software quality; Software testing;
Conference_Titel :
Mining Software Repositories (MSR), 2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cape Town
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6802-7
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-6803-4
DOI :
10.1109/MSR.2010.5463288
