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 …

Bug reports play an important role in the process of debugging and fixing bugs. To reduce
the burden of bug report managers and facilitate the process of bug fixing, a great amount of …

Bug deduplication, ie, recognizing bug reports that refer to the same problem, is a
challenging task in the software‐engineering life cycle. Researchers have proposed several …

Bug deduplication or duplicate bug report detection is a hot topic in software engineering
information retrieval research, but it is often not deployed. Typically to de-duplicate bug …

When bugs are reported, one important task is to check if they are new or if they were
reported before. Many approaches have been proposed to partially automate duplicate bug …

Software refactoring is the common practice that is applied to improve the internal structure
of software systems without altering their external behaviors. Software developers …

Issue tracking data have been used extensively to aid in predicting or recommending
software development practices. Issue attributes typically change over time, but users may …

Software requirements are ever-changing which often leads to software evolution.
Consequently, throughout software lifetime, developers receive new requirements often …

Researchers have proposed various approaches to generate test programs. The state-of-the-
art approaches can be roughly divided into random-based and mutation-based approaches …

Context There are many duplicate bug reports in the semi-structured software repository of
various software bug triage systems. The duplicate bug report detection (DBRD) process is a …