For many software projects, bug tracking systems play a central role in supporting collaboration between the developers and the users of the software. To better understand this co...
Silvia Breu, Rahul Premraj, Jonathan Sillito, Thom...
It is important that information provided in bug reports is relevant and complete in order to help resolve bugs quickly. However, often such information trickles to developers aft...
Thomas Zimmermann, Rahul Premraj, Jonathan Sillito...
In software development, bug reports provide crucial information to developers. However, these reports widely differ in their quality. We conducted a survey among developers and u...
—For a large and evolving software system, the project team could receive a large number of bug reports. Locating the source code files that need to be changed in order to fix th...
Although they are helpful in many cases, state-of-the-art bug reporting systems may impose excessive overhead on users, leak private information, or provide little help to the dev...