How (not) to find bugs: The interplay between merge conflicts, co-changes, and bugs

• Main Authors: AMARAL, Luis, OLIVEIRA, Marcos C., LUZ, Welder, FORTES, José, BONIFACIO, Rodrigo, ALENCAR, Daniel, MONTEIRO, Eduardo, PINTO, Gustavo, David LO
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2020
• Subjects: Software defects; software integration; merge conflicts; co-change dependencies; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/5625; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/6628/viewcontent/HowNotTofindBugs_2020_pv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Context: In a seminal work, Ball et al. [1] investigate if the information available in version control systems could be used to predict defect density, arguing that practitioners and researchers could better understand errors "if [our] version control system could talk". In the meanwhile,...