Bug Mining Model Based on Event-Component Similarity to Discover Similar and Duplicate GUI Bugs

All most all of the bugs related to graphical user interface (GUI) module of applications and are described in terms of events associated with GUI components. In this paper, a bug mining model for discovering duplicate and similar GUI bugs is presented and approach for detecting the similar and duplicate GUI bugs is described. Resolution of similar and duplicate bugs are almost identical, so if similar and duplicates are identified it will optimize the time for fixing reported GUI bugs and it can also help in achieving the faster development. A GUI bug can be transformed into a sequence of events, components and expected implementation requirements for each GUI event. This transformation is used in this paper to discover the similar and duplicate GUI bugs. First all the GUI bugs are transformed into events, components and requirements sequence, then these sequences are pair wise matched and common subsequence is generated which will indicate the similarity for the GUI bugs.