Software often crashes. Once a crash happens, a crash report could be sent to software
developers for investigation upon user permission. To facilitate efficient handling of crashes …

As software becomes increasingly important, its quality becomes an increasingly important
issue. Therefore, prior work focused on software quality and proposed many prediction …

Software companies spend over 45 percent of cost in dealing with software bugs. An
inevitable step of fixing bugs is bug triage, which aims to correctly assign a developer to a …

Software systems often receive a large number of bug reports. Triagers read through such
reports and assign different priorities to different reports so that important and urgent bugs …

When a bug manifests in a user-facing application, it is likely to be exposed through the
graphical user interface (GUI). Given the importance of visual information to the process of …

Bugs are prevalent. To improve software quality, developers often allow users to report bugs
that they found using a bug tracking system such as Bugzilla. Users would specify among …

Fixing bugs is an important part of the software development process. An underlying aspect
is the effectiveness of fixes: if a fair number of fixed bugs are reopened, it could indicate …

Stack Overflow is a popular question answering site that is focused on programming
problems. Despite efforts to prevent asking questions that have already been answered, the …

Coupling is an important property of software systems, which directly impacts program
comprehension. In addition, the strength of coupling measured between modules in …

Bug-tracking and issue-tracking systems tend to be populated with bugs, issues, or tickets
written by a wide variety of bug reporters, with different levels of training and knowledge …