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Empirical Evaluation Of Bug Linking, Tegawendé F. Bissyande, Ferdian Thung, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Laurent Réveillère
Empirical Evaluation Of Bug Linking, Tegawendé F. Bissyande, Ferdian Thung, Shaowei Wang, David Lo, Lingxiao Jiang, Laurent Réveillère
David LO
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 changes are missing for many software projects as the bug tracking and version control systems are often maintained separately. Yet, linking bug reports to fix commits is important as it could shed light into the nature of bug fixing processes and expose patterns in software management. Bug linking solutions, such as ReLink, …