bugMLX: Extended Software Bug Markup Language

Abstract

World Wide Web (www) is producing immense amount of data, making it difficult for users to manage, analyze, and then bring useful information out of it. A user may not be able to understand the data and concepts in a document produced by a user that belongs to a different domain. Also data produced on heterogeneous systems cannot be integrated with ease. XML (extensible markup language) helps in all these scenarios where users can describe their data and concepts using tags. Data can be shared and integrated among heterogeneous systems using XML. Also intelligent machines can be built to process data from XML documents and analyze them. The Software bug Markup Language (bugML) is an effort to provide XML structure to software bug information. We have extended this work and have proposed some additions to bugML so it can be described comprehensively. We have also implemented a tool that we name as Auto-bugMLX, to automate our work.