定位错误的源代码文件以修复错误报告

Q4 Computer Science

International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes Pub Date : 2022-01-01 DOI:10.4018/ijossp.308791

A. Hamdy, Abdelrahman E. Arabi

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摘要

开源软件通常在仍然包含bug的时候发布。为了在维护阶段修复报告的错误，开发人员必须搜索源代码文件以识别有问题的文件;这个过程被称为bug定位(BL)。自动化BL是提高开发人员生产力和提高软件质量的必要条件。本文提出了一种基于信息检索的方法，用于检索和排序与提交的bug报告(BR)相关的可疑错误源文件列表。所提出的方法利用了BRs和源文件的文本特性，即词性标记、源文件和BRs之间的词法和语义相似性以及源文件更改历史。该方法的有效性在三个开源软件库上进行了评估。实验结果表明，该方法在top@N和MAP指标方面优于之前的八种方法。

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Locating Faulty Source Code Files to Fix Bug Reports

Open source software is usually released while it still contains bugs. In order to fix a reported bug during maintenance phase, the developer has to search the source code files to identify the faulty ones; this process is called bug localization (BL). Automating BL is a necessity to boost the developer's productivity and enhance the software quality. The paper proposes an information retrieval based approach for retrieving and ranking a list of suspicious faulty source files relevant to a submitted bug report (BR). The proposed approach leverages textual features of the BRs and source files, which are parts-of-speech tagging, lexical and semantic similarity between the source files and BRs, in addition to the source file change history. The effectiveness of the proposed approach was evaluated over three open-source software repositories. Experimental results showed the superiority of the proposed approach over eight previous approaches in terms of top@N and MAP metrics.

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International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes Computer Science-Software

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Open Source Software and Processes (IJOSSP) publishes high-quality peer-reviewed and original research articles on the large field of open source software and processes. This wide area entails many intriguing question and facets, including the special development process performed by a large number of geographically dispersed programmers, community issues like coordination and communication, motivations of the participants, and also economic and legal issues. Beyond this topic, open source software is an example of a highly distributed innovation process led by the users. Therefore, many aspects have relevance beyond the realm of software and its development. In this tradition, IJOSSP also publishes papers on these topics. IJOSSP is a multi-disciplinary outlet, and welcomes submissions from all relevant fields of research and applying a multitude of research approaches.