Bug repositories are usually maintained in software projects. Testers or users submit bug
reports to identify various issues with systems. Sometimes two or more bug reports …

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 …

Bug tracking systems are valuable assets for managing maintenance activities. They are
widely used in open-source projects as well as in the software industry. They collect many …

In software development, bug reports provide crucial information to developers. However,
these reports widely differ in their quality. We conducted a survey among developers and …

Detecting duplicate bug reports helps reduce triaging efforts and save time for developers in
fixing the same issues. Among several automated detection approaches, text-based …

To design effective tools for detecting and recovering from software failures requires a deep
understanding of software bug characteristics. We study software bug characteristics by …

Bug reports represent an important information source for software construction.
Misclassification of these reports inevitably introduces bias. Manual examinations can help …

We performed an empirical study to characterize factors that affect which bugs get fixed in
Windows Vista and Windows 7, focusing on factors related to bug report edits and …

In mission critical systems, such as those developed by NASA, it is very important that the
test engineers properly recognize the severity of each issue they identify during testing …

A key collaborative hub for many software development projects is the bug report repository.
Although its use can improve the software development process in a number of ways …