An automated bug triage approach: A concept profile and social network based developer recommendation

Tao Zhang, Byungjeong Lee

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Abstract

Generally speaking, the larger-scale open source development projects support both developers and users to report bugs in an open bug repository. Each report that appears in this repository must be triaged for fixing it. However, with huge amount of bugs are reported every day, the workload of developers is so high. In addition, most of bug reports were not assigned to correct developers for fixing so that these bugs need to be re-assigned to another developer. If the number of re-assignments to developers is large, the bug fixing time is increased. So "who are appropriate developers for fixing bug?" is an important question for bug triage. In this paper, we propose an automated developer recommendation approach for bug triage. The major contribution of our paper is to build the concept profile(CP) for extracting the bug concepts with topic terms from the documents produced by related bug reports, and we find the important developers with the high probability of fixing the given bug by using social network(SN). As a result, we get a ranked list of appropriate developers for bug fixing according to their expertise and fixing cost. The evaluation results show that our approach outperforms other developer recommendation methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationIntelligent Computing Technology - 8th International Conference, ICIC 2012, Proceedings
Pages505-512
Number of pages8
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing Technology, ICIC 2012 - Huangshan, China
Duration: 25 Jul 201229 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7389 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Intelligent Computing Technology, ICIC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHuangshan
Period25/07/1229/07/12

Keywords

  • bug triage
  • concept profile
  • developer recommendation
  • fixing cost
  • reassignment
  • social network

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