Context: Better methods of evaluating process performance of OSS projects can benefit
decision makers who consider adoption of OSS software in a company. This article studies …

Bug reports are widely employed to facilitate software tasks in software maintenance. Since
bug reports are contributed by people, the authorship characteristics of contributors may …

Issue reports are a pivotal interface between developers and users for receiving information
about bugs in their products. In practice, issue reports often have incorrect information or …

Issue reports are a pivotal interface between developers and users for receiving information
about bugs in their products. In practice, reproducing those bugs is challenging, since issue …

Large open source software projects, like Eclipse, follow a continuous software development
process, with a regular release cycle. During each release, new bugs are reported, triaged …

Large software projects follow a continuous development process with regular releases
during which bugs are handled. In recent years, many software projects shifted to rapid …

Large‐scale software systems are being increasingly built by distributed teams of
developers who interact across geographies and time zones. Ensuring smooth knowledge …

Traditional bug management systems, like Bugzilla, are widely used in open source and
commercial projects. Stack Exchange uses its online question and answer (Q&A) platform to …

Defect data is critical for software defect prediction. To collect defect data, it is essential to
establish links between bugs and their fixes. Missing links (ie low link rate) can cause false …

Modern development environments provide a widely used auto-correction facility for quickly
repairing syntactic errors. Auto-correction cannot deal with semantic errors, which are much …