Title :
An Initial Study on the Bug Report Duplication Problem
Author :
Cavalcanti, Yguaratã A Cerqueira ; de Almeida, Eliana S. ; da Cunha, C.E.A. ; Lucrédio, Daniel ; De Lemos Meira, Silvio Romero
Author_Institution :
Center for Inf., Fed. Univ. of Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil
Abstract :
According to recent work, duplicate bug report entries in bug tracking systems impact negatively on software maintenance and evolution productivity due to, among other factors, the increased time spent on report analysis and validation, what in some cases take over 20 minutes. Therefore, a considerable amount of time is lost mainly with duplicate bug report analysis. This work presents an initial characterization study using data from bug trackers from private and open source projects, in order to understand the possible factors that cause bug report duplication and its impact on software development.
Keywords :
program debugging; software maintenance; bug report duplication problem; bug tracker; bug tracking system; duplicate bug report analysis; duplicate bug report entry; software development; software maintenance; Context; Electronic mail; Measurement; Organizations; Productivity; Programming; Software; problem report; report duplication; software bugs; software maintenance;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR), 2010 14th European Conference on
Conference_Location :
Madrid
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-369-8
Electronic_ISBN :
1534-5351
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.2010.52
