Bug Reports and Deep Learning Models

Deep Learning is one of the emerging and trending research area of machine learning in various domains. The paper describes the deep learning approaches applied to the domain of Bug Reports. The paper classifies the tasks being performed for mining of Bug Reports into Bug Report Classification, Bug Localization, Bug Report Summarization and Duplicate Bug Report Detection. The paper systematically discusses about the deep learning approaches being used for the mentioned tasks, and the future directions in this field of research.

Automated Classification of Unstructured Bilingual Software Bug Reports: An Industrial Case Study Research

Software bug report classification is a critical process to understand the nature, implications, and causes of software failures. Furthermore, classification enables a fast and appropriate reaction to software bugs. However, for large-scale projects, one must deal with a broad set of bugs from multiple types. In this context, manually classifying bugs becomes cumbersome and time-consuming. Although several studies have addressed automated bug classification using machine learning techniques, they have mainly focused on academic case studies, open-source software, and unilingual text input. This paper presents our automated bug classification approach applied and validated in an industrial case study. In contrast to earlier studies, our study is applied to a commercial software system based on unstructured bilingual bug reports written in English and Turkish. The presented approach adopts and integrates machine learning (ML), text mining, and natural language processing (NLP) techniques to support the classification of software bugs. The approach has been applied within an industrial case study. Compared to manual classification, our results show that bug classification can be automated and even performs better than manual bug classification. Our study shows that the presented approach and the corresponding tools effectively reduce the manual classification time and effort.

Application of Data Mining Technology in Software Engineering

With the rapid development of informatization, computer database software systems have entered various fields of society, which has brought about the explosive growth of industry data. Faced with massive amounts of data, computers with limited storage capacity have to abandon some outdated data, and the application of various data mining technologies related to it has gradually matured. The purpose of this article is to discuss the application research of data mining technology in software engineering. This article analyzes the correlation analysis of a large number of bug repair source code update data and bug defect reports in the version control system SVN and the defect tracking system Bugzilla in the software engineering project development process, and tries to classify the bug report by data mining technology: defect changes and potential defects change. Starting from large-scale software engineering projects, apply data mining technology to the huge software engineeri ng knowledge base. Especially the software development and maintenance are explained, as well as the more challenging problems in the future. This paper uses data mining technology to study the dependency of the source code files of each module of the software system, and helps software developers quickly understand the software architecture by understanding the interrelationships between the modules, and provides suggestions for modification paths. Experimental research shows that this paper compares with F-measure and concludes that FL-M-GSpan algorithm is better than TS-M-GSpan algorithm. At the same time, it is found that the FL-M-GSpan algorithm always has a better accuracy rate close to 95%, while the TS-M-GSpan algorithm always has a better recall rate.

Adaptive Ranking Relevant Source Files for Bug Reports Using Genetic Algorithm

Precisely locating buggy files for a given bug report is a cumbersome and time-consuming task, particularly in a large-scale project with thousands of source files and bug reports. An efficient bug localization module is desirable to improve the productivity of the software maintenance phase. Many previous approaches rank source files according to their relevance to a given bug report based on simple lexical matching scores. However, the lexical mismatches between natural language expressions used to describe bug reports and technical terms of software source code might reduce the bug localization system’s accuracy. Incorporating domain knowledge through some features such as the semantic similarity, the fixing frequency of a source file, the code change history and similar bug reports is crucial to efficiently locating buggy files. In this paper, we propose a bug localization model, BugLocGA that leverages both lexical and semantic information as well as explores the relation between a bug report and a source file through some domain features. Given a bug report, we calculate the ranking score with every source files through a weighted sum of all features, where the weights are trained through a genetic algorithm with the aim of maximizing the performance of the bug localization model using two evaluation metrics: mean reciprocal rank (MRR) and mean average precision (MAP). The empirical results conducted on some widely-used open source software projects have showed that our model outperformed some state of the art approaches by effectively recommending relevant files where the bug should be fixed.