Empirical evaluation of bug linking

• Main Authors: BISSYANDE, Tegawende F., THUNG, Ferdian, WANG, Shaowei, LO, David, JIANG, Lingxiao, REVEILLERE, Laurent
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: computer software; software bugs; bug tracking; bug linking; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/1684; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/2683/viewcontent/csmr13buglink.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

To collect software bugs found by users, development teams often setup bug trackers using systems such as Bugzilla. Developers would then fix some of the bugs and commit corresponding code changes into version control systems such as svn or git. Unfortunately, the links between bug reports and code...