On the unreliability of bug severity data

• Main Authors: TIAN, Yuan, ALI, Nasir, David LO, HASSAN, Ahmed E.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Bug report management; Data quality; Noise prediction; Performance evaluation; Severity prediction; Computer Sciences; Information Security; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/2859; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/3859/viewcontent/UnreliabilityBugSeverityData_2016.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Severity levels, e.g., critical and minor, of bugs are often used to prioritize development efforts. Prior research efforts have proposed approaches to automatically assign the severity label to a bug report. All prior efforts verify the accuracy of their approaches using human-assigned bug reports...