Context: In software engineering practice, fixing bugs in a timely manner lowers various
potential costs in software maintenance. However, manual bug fixing scheduling can be …

Monitoring technical debt (TD) is considered highly important for software companies, as it
provides valuable information on the effort required to repay TD and in turn maintain the …

Bug repositories are dynamic in nature and as new bugs arrive, the old ones are closed. In a
typical software project, bugs and their dependencies are reported manually and gradually …

The issue tracking system (ITS) is a rich data source for data-driven decision-making.
Different characteristics of bugs, such as severity, priority, and time to fix, provide a clear …

Background: Bug tracking systems receive many bug reports daily. Although the software
quality team aims to identify and resolve these bugs, they are never able to fix all of the …

In software engineering practice, fixing bugs in a timely manner lowers various potential
costs in software maintenance. However, manually determining the bug-fixing schedules …

Background. Remaining defects are a cause of significant issues in software development
industry and not fixing them as soon as possible increases the risk of negative effects such …

As the software projects become more complex, the release deci-sion is made without
resolving all the bugs in the issue tracking system. Accumulation of the bugs in the bug …

Technical Debt (TD) is a successful metaphor in conveying the consequences of software
inefficiencies and their elimination to both technical and non-technical stakeholders …