Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the
problems encountered while using the software. As such, researchers have committed …

The performance of fault localization techniques is critical to their adoption in practice. This
paper reports on an empirical study of a wide range of fault localization techniques on real …

When a new bug report is received, developers usually need to reproduce the bug and
perform code reviews to find the cause, a process that can be tedious and time consuming …

The automated task of locating the potential buggy files in a software project given a bug
report is called bug localization. Bug localization helps developers focus on crucial files …

Various information retrieval (IR) based techniques have been proposed recently to locate
bugs automatically at the file level. However, their usefulness is often compromised by the …

Public vulnerability databases such as Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and
National Vulnerability Database (NVD) have achieved a great success in promoting …

Issue tracking systems are commonly used in modern software development for collecting
feedback from users and developers. An ultimate automation target of software maintenance …

Automatically localizing software bugs to the changesets that induced them has the potential
to improve software developer efficiency and to positively affect software quality. To facilitate …

Recent findings suggest that Information Retrieval (IR)-based bug localization techniques do
not perform well if the bug report lacks rich structured information (eg, relevant program …

Context Several issues or defects in released software during the maintenance phase are
reported to the development team. It is costly and time-consuming for developers to …