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Why so complicated? simple term filtering and weighting for location-based bug report assignment recommendation

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Ramin Shokripour,

Zarinah M. Kasirun,

Sima ZamaniAuthors Info & Claims

MSR '13: Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

Pages 2 - 11

Published: 18 May 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Large software development projects receive many bug reports and each of these reports needs to be triaged. An important step in the triage process is the assignment of the report to a developer. Most previous efforts towards improving bug report assignment have focused on using an activity-based approach. We address some of the limitations of activity-based approaches by proposing a two-phased location-based approach where bug report assignment recommendations are based on the predicted location of the bug. The proposed approach utilizes a noun extraction process on several information sources to determine bug location information and a simple term weighting scheme to provide a bug report assignment recommendation. We found that by using a location-based approach, we achieved an accuracy of 89.41% and 59.76% when recommending five developers for the Eclipse and Mozilla projects, respectively.

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Index Terms

Why so complicated? simple term filtering and weighting for location-based bug report assignment recommendation
1. Information systems
  1. Information systems applications
    1. Data mining
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Software version control
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Software defect analysis
        Software testing and debugging
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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MSR '13: Proceedings of the 10th Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories

May 2013

438 pages

ISBN:9781467329361

General Chair:
Thomas Zimmermann,
Program Chairs:
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Sunghun Kim

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