DigBug: Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization

• Main Authors: KIM, Kisub, GHATPANDE, Sankalp, LIU, Kui, KOYUNCU, Anil, KIM, Dongsun, BISSYANDE, Tegawendé F., KLEIN, Jacques, LE TRAON, Yves
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2022
• Subjects: Bug characteristics; Bug localization; Bug report; Fault localization; Information retrieval; Operator combination; Software Engineering
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/7161; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/8164/viewcontent/DigBug_Dig_into_Bug_JSS.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Bug localization is a recurrent maintenance task in software development. It aims at identifying relevant code locations (e.g., code files) that must be inspected to fix bugs. When such bugs are reported by users, the localization process become often overwhelming as it is mostly a manual task due t...