In recent years, there has been a remarkable surge in the adoption of open-source software
(OSS). However, with the growing usage of OSS components in both free and proprietary …

In software development, the main problem is recognizing the security-oriented issues within
the reported bugs due to their unacceptable failure rate to provide satisfactory reliability on …

In modern times, the software industry is more focused on the timely release of high-quality
software. Software bugs have a significant impact on software quality and reliability. To …

Artificial intelligence (AI) has witnessed an exponential increase in use in various
applications. Recently, the academic community started to research and inject new AI-based …

In software development systems, the maintenance process of software systems attracted
the attention of researchers due to its importance in fixing the defects discovered in the …

Debugging is a time-consuming and expensive process. Developers have to select
appropriate tools, methods and approaches in order to efficiently reproduce, localize and fix …

In software development processes, classifying software bugs is a vital step since it helps
grasp the nature, implications, and causes of software failures. Further, categorization …

A software bug tracking system receives several bug reports in a rapid manner during the
maintenance of software. In order to fix the important and urgent bugs, the triager has to …

Upon receiving a new issue report, practitioners start by investigating the defect type, the
potential fixing effort needed to resolve the defect and the change impact. Moreover, issue …

Software maintenance is an important phase of a development life cycle that needs to be
essentially performed in order to avoid the software failure. To systematically handle the …