Towards More Accurate Retrieval of Duplicate Bug Reports

• Main Authors: SUN, Chengnian, LO, David, KHOO, Siau-Cheng, JIANG, Jing
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1402; http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASE.2011.6100061
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In a bug tracking system, different testers or users may submit multiple reports on the same bugs, referred to as duplicates, which may cost extra maintenance efforts in triaging and fixing bugs. In order to identify such duplicates accurately, in this paper we propose a retrieval function (REP) to...