Towards characterizing bug fixes through dependency-level changes in Apache Java open source projects

• Main Authors: Cui, Di, Fan, Lingling, Chen, Sen, Cai, Yuanfang, Zheng, Qinghua, Liu, Yang, Liu, Ting
• Other Authors: School of Computer Science and Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Computer science and engineering; Empirical Software Engineering; Software Maintenance
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/163264
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The complexity and diversity of bug fixes require developers to understand bug fixes from multiple perspectives in addition to fine-grained code changes. The dependencies among files in a software system are an important dimension to inform software quality. Recent studies have revealed that most bu...