Reliably predicting software defects is one of the holy grails of software engineering.
Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of defect/bug prediction approaches …

Change-level defect prediction [5], aka, Just-In-Time (JIT) defect prediction [1], is an
alternative to module-level defect prediction that offers several advantages. First, since code …

Reliably predicting software defects is one of software engineering's holy grails.
Researchers have devised and implemented a plethora of bug prediction approaches …

Antipatterns are poor design choices that are conjectured to make object-oriented systems
harder to maintain. We investigate the impact of antipatterns on classes in object-oriented …

The severity of a reported bug is a critical factor in deciding how soon it needs to be fixed.
Unfortunately, while clear guidelines exist on how to assign the severity of a bug, it remains …

The amount of unstructured data available to software engineering researchers in
versioning systems, issue trackers, achieved communications, and many other repositories …

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 …

Transformers are the current state-of-the-art of natural language processing in many
domains and are using traction within software engineering research as well. Such models …

CONTEXT: Some recent static techniques for automatic bug localization have been built
around modern information retrieval (IR) models such as latent semantic indexing (LSI) …

Bug reports represent an important information source for software construction.
Misclassification of these reports inevitably introduces bias. Manual examinations can help …