Title :
Improving Bug Assignment with Bug Tossing Graphs and Bug Similarities
Author :
Chen, Liguo ; Wang, Xiaobo ; Liu, Chao
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Beihang Univ., Beijing, China
Abstract :
In open-source software development the bug report is usually assigned to a developer for bug fixing. A large number of bug reports are tossed (reassigned) to other developers, for example because the bugs have been assigned by mistake. The tossing events increase bug-fix time. In order to quickly identify the fixer to bug reports we present an approach based on the bug tossing history and textual similarities between bug reports. This proposed approach is evaluated on Eclipse and Mozilla. The results show that our approach can significantly improve the efficiency of bug assignment: the bug resolver is often identified with fewer tossing events.
Keywords :
program debugging; public domain software; software engineering; Eclipse; Mozilla; bug assignment; bug fixing; bug similarities; bug tossing graphs; open-source software development; Application software; Bioinformatics; Collision avoidance; Computational modeling; Computer graphics; Computer science; Computer simulation; Humans; Medical simulation; Navigation;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science (ICBECS), 2010 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Wuhan
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5315-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICBECS.2010.5462287