One Step More to Understand the Bug Report Duplication Problem

Author

Cavalcanti, Yguaratã Cerqueira ; Da Mota Silveira Neto, Paulo Anselmo ; de Almeida, Eliana S. ; Lucrédio, Daniel ; da Cunha, C.E.A. ; De Lemos Meira, Silvio Romero

fYear

2010

fDate

Sept. 27 2010-Oct. 1 2010

Firstpage

148

Lastpage

157

Abstract

According to recent work, duplicate bug reports impact negatively on software maintenance and evolution productivity due to, among other factors, the increased time spent on report analysis and validation. Therefore, a considerable amount of time is lost mainly with duplicate bug report analysis. In this sense, this work presents am exploratory study using data from bug trackers from private and open source projects, in order to understand the possible factors (i.e. software life-time, size, amount of bug reports, etc.) that cause bug report duplication and its impact on software development. This work also discusses bug report characteristics that could help identifying duplicates.

Keywords

program debugging; public domain software; software maintenance; bug report duplication problem; open source project; software development; software evolution productivity; software maintenance; Browsers; Electronic mail; Fires; Measurement; Programming; Software; Vocabulary; bug report duplication; bug tracker; exploratory study; software configuration management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Engineering (SBES), 2010 Brazilian Symposium on

Conference_Location

Salvador, Bahia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8917-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-4273-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SBES.2010.12

Filename

5629585