Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2016

Abstract

Similar bugs are bugs that require handling of many common code files. Developers can often fix similar bugs with a shorter time and a higher quality since they can focus on fewer code files. Therefore, similar bug recommendation is a meaningful task which can improve development efficiency. Rocha et al. propose the first similar bug recommendation system named NextBug. Although NextBug performs better than a start-of-the-art duplicated bug detection technique REP, its performance is not optimal and thus more work is needed to improve its effectiveness. Technically, it is also rather simple as it relies only upon a standard information retrieval technique, i.e., cosine similarity. In the paper, we propose a novel approach to recommend similar bugs. The approach combines a traditional information retrieval technique and a word embedding technique, and takes bug titles and descriptions as well as bug product and component information into consideration. To evaluate the approach, we use datasets from two popular open-source projects, i.e., Eclipse and Mozilla, each of which contains bug reports whose bug ids range from [1,400000]. The results show that our approach improves the performance of NextBug statistically significantly and substantially for both projects.

Keywords

Information Retrieval, Recommendation Systems, Similar Bugs, Word Embedding

Discipline

Computer Sciences | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

ISSRE 2016: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering: Ottawa, October 23-27, 2016

First Page

127

Last Page

137

ISBN

9781467390019

Identifier

10.1109/ISSRE.2016.33

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSRE.2016.33

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