Locating bugs is important, difficult, and expensive, particularly for large-scale systems. To
address this, natural language information retrieval techniques are increasingly being used …

For a large and evolving software system, the project team could receive a large number of
bug reports. Locating the source code files that need to be changed in order to fix the bugs is …

Bug localization refers to the automated process of locating the potential buggy files for a
given bug report. To help developers focus their attention to those files is crucial. Several …

A bug report is mainly used to find a fault location in software maintenance. It contains
several fields such as summary, description, status and version. The description field …

The automated task of locating the potential buggy files in a software project given a bug
report is called bug localization. Bug localization helps developers focus on crucial files …

To deal with post-release bugs, many software projects set up public bug repositories for
users all over the world to report bugs that they have encountered. Recently, researchers …

Fast and accurate localization of software defects continues to be a difficult problem since
defects can emanate from a large variety of sources and can often be intricate in nature. In …

In bug localization, a developer uses information about a bug to locate the portion of the
source code to modify to correct the bug. Developers expend considerable effort performing …

Various information retrieval (IR) based techniques have been proposed recently to locate
bugs automatically at the file level. However, their usefulness is often compromised by the …

Researchers have proposed a number of tools for automatic bug localization. Given a
program and a description of the failure, such tools pinpoint a set of statements that are most …