In a survey we found that most developers have experienced duplicated bug reports,
however, only few considered them as a serious problem. This contradicts popular wisdom …

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 …

Software developers access bug reports in a project's bug repository to help with a number
of different tasks, including understanding how previous changes have been made and …

A critical item of a bug report is the so-called" severity", ie the impact the bug has on the
successful execution of the software system. Consequently, tool support for the person …

The software development process produces vast amounts of textual data expressed in
natural language. Outcomes from the natural language processing community have been …

Developers build all the software artifacts in development. Existing work has studied the
social behavior in software repositories. In one of the most important software repositories, a …

Code comments are important artifacts in software. Javadoc comments are widely used in
Java for API specifications. API developers write Javadoc comments, and API users read …

Bugs are prevalent in software systems. Some bugs are critical and need to be fixed right
away, whereas others are minor and their fixes could be postponed until resources are …

Two important questions concerning the coordination of development effort are which bugs
to fix first and how long it takes to fix them. In this paper we investigate empirically the …

For many software projects, bug tracking systems play a central role in supporting
collaboration between the developers and the users of the software. To better understand …