The severity of a reported bug is a critical factor in deciding how soon it needs to be fixed.
Unfortunately, while clear guidelines exist on how to assign the severity of a bug, it remains …

The analysis of bug reports is an important subfield within the mining software repositories
community. It explores the rich data available in defect tracking systems to uncover …

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 …

Predicting the severity of bugs has been found in past research to improve triaging and the
bug resolution process. For this reason, many classification/prediction approaches emerged …

Software Bug reporting is an integral part of software development process. Once the Bug is
reported on Bug Tracking System, their attributes are analyzed and subsequently assigned …

A bug-tracking system such as Bugzilla contains bug reports (BRs) collected from various
sources such as development teams, testing teams, and end users. When bug reporters …

Bug fixing is an essential activity in the software maintenance, because most of the software
systems have unavoidable defects. When new bugs are submitted, triagers have to find and …

In non-trivial software development projects planning and allocation of resources is an
important and difficult task. Estimation of work time to fix a bug is commonly used to support …

Researchers have proposed various metrics based on measurable aspects of the source
code entities (eg, methods, classes, files, or modules) and the social structure of a software …

In software engineering experiments, the description of bug reports is typically treated as
natural language text, although it often contains stack traces, source code, and patches …