Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

5-2016

Abstract

Projects receive a large number of bug reports, and resolving these reports take considerable time and human resources. To aid developers in the resolution of bug reports, various automated techniques have been proposed to identify and recommend developers to address newly reported bugs. Two families of bug assignee recommendation techniques include those that recommend developers who have fixed similar bugs before (a.k.a. activity-based techniques) and those recommend suitable developers based on the location of the bug (a.k.a. location-based techniques). Previously, each of these techniques has been investigated separately. In this work, we propose a unified model that combines information from both developers' previous activities and suspicious program locations associated with a bug report in the form of similarity features. We have evaluated our proposed approach on more than 11,000 bug reports from Eclipse JDT, Eclipse SWT and ArgoUML projects. Our experiments show that our unified model can outperform a location-based baseline by Anvik et al. and an activity-based baseline by Shokripour et al. In terms of correct recommendations at top-1 position, our unified model outperforms the activity-based baseline 50.0%-100.0%, and the location-based baseline by 11.1%-27.0%

Keywords

Bug Assignee Recommendation, Bug Reports

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2016 24th IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension: ICPC: Proceedings: May 16-17, Austin, TX

First Page

1

Last Page

10

ISBN

9781509014286

Identifier

10.1109/ICPC.2016.7503715

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Publisher

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICPC.2016.7503715

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