Improving bug triage with the bug personalized tossing relationship

IF 3.8 2区计算机科学 Q2 COMPUTER SCIENCE, INFORMATION SYSTEMS

Information and Software Technology Pub Date : 2024-12-09 DOI:10.1016/j.infsof.2024.107642

Wei Wei , Haojie Li , Xinshuang Ren , Feng Jiang , Xu Yu , Xingyu Gao , Junwei Du

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Abstract

Background:

In open-source software projects, the main task of bug triage is accurately assigning bugs to appropriate developers. Statistics indicate that about 50% of bugs are reassigned (also called “tossed”) at least once, greatly extending the time for bug fixing. Research studies have shown that combining historical tossing relationships can significantly improve bug triage performance.

Objective:

The current research on utilizing bug tossing relationships can be mainly divided into two categories: (1) During the reassignment phase, only developers with the highest probability of tossing relationships are selected. (2) Use attribute filtering mechanism to filter and match developers. However, these approaches fail to fully consider the matching degree between developers’ abilities and the knowledge required to fix current bugs. We are attempting to propose an approach to address the above problem.

Approach:

We propose an approach to improve bug triage with the Bug Personalized Tossing Relationship (BPTRM). It uses a tossing transition probability matrix derived from historical tossing paths to help recommend suitable developers for solving bug reports.

Result:

Experimental results from various data sets within Eclipse and Mozilla indicate that BPTRM improves average recommendation performance by at least 14.38% compared to different initial assignment approaches. In addition, compared to baselines, BPTRM improves the average accuracy by 14.66% and shortens the average bug tossing length by 16.19%.

Conclusion:

1. The BPTRM approach, combined with personalized bug tossing relationships, precisely matches developers’ abilities and the knowledge required to fix current bugs. 2. This effectively improves the bug triage’s accuracy and shortens the bug tossing’s length.

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Information and Software Technology 工程技术-计算机：软件工程

CiteScore

9.10

自引率

7.70%

发文量

164

审稿时长

9.6 weeks

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