The timely release of defect-free software and the optimization of development costs depend
on efficient software bug triaging (SBT) techniques. SBT can also help in managing the vast …

One crucial step in addressing bugs is assigning a proper severity rating to each report. New
bugs are being reported at such a high rate that the bug repository has grown significantly in …

Due to the increasing scale and complexity of software products, software maintenance
especially on bug resolution has become a challenging task. Generally in large-scale …

Many defect prediction techniques have been proposed. While they often take the author of
the code into consideration, none of these techniques build a separate prediction model for …

Bug triaging refers to the process of assigning a bug to the most appropriate developer to fix.
It becomes more and more difficult and complicated as the size of software and the number …

To design effective tools for detecting and recovering from software failures requires a deep
understanding of software bug characteristics. We study software bug characteristics by …

Bug reports represent an important information source for software construction.
Misclassification of these reports inevitably introduces bias. Manual examinations can help …

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 …

Due to the unavoidable bugs appearing in the most of the software systems, bug resolution
has become one of the most important activities in software maintenance. For large-scale …

Bug report assignment is an important part of software maintenance. In particular, incorrect
assignments of bug reports to development teams can be very expensive in large software …