Retrieving software maintenance history with topic models

Author

Shusi Yu

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2012

fDate

23-28 Sept. 2012

Firstpage

621

Lastpage

624

Abstract

Software maintenance history is a chronological record of significant maintenance events. It provides high level knowledge to software stakeholders, helps them to make important decisions. Unfortunately, retrieving software maintenance history is a heavy manual work so it can be invalid or even misleading. This paper use topic models to organize software maintenance documents such as bug reports into topics. Event detection tool is adopted to identify maintenance events from these topics. Finally, the identified events reconstruct software maintenance history. Retrieval results on 100,000 Eclipse bug reports are in accordance with Eclipse history records.

Keywords

decision making; document handling; information retrieval; software maintenance; system documentation; Eclipse bug reports; Eclipse history records; chronological record; decision making; event detection tool; maintenance event identification; software maintenance documents organization; software maintenance history retrieval; software stakeholders; topic models; Computer bugs; Conferences; Event detection; History; Maintenance engineering; Software maintenance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance (ICSM), 2012 28th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Trento

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2313-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405337

Filename

6405337