DocumentCode
3357680
Title
Software bugs and evolution: a visual approach to uncover their relationship
Author
Ambros, Marco D. ; Lanza, Michele
Author_Institution
Fac. of Informatics, Lugano Univ.
fYear
2006
fDate
22-24 March 2006
Lastpage
238
Abstract
Versioning systems such as CVS exhibit a large potential to investigate and understand the evolution of large software systems. Bug reporting systems such as Bugzilla help to understand which parts of the system are affected by problems. In this article, we present a novel visual approach to uncover the relationship between evolving software and the way it is affected by software bugs. By visually putting the two aspects close to each other, we can characterize the evolution of software artifacts. We validate our approach on 3 very large open source software systems
Keywords
configuration management; program debugging; program visualisation; public domain software; security of data; software maintenance; Bugzilla; bug reporting system; concurrent version system; open source software system; software bugs; software evolution; visual approach; Computer bugs; Computer industry; Data visualization; Documentation; History; Industrial relations; Informatics; Information retrieval; Open source software; Software systems;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2006. CSMR 2006. Proceedings of the 10th European Conference on
Conference_Location
Bari
ISSN
1534-5351
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2536-9
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/CSMR.2006.51
Filename
1602374
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