A critical item of a bug report is the so-called" severity", ie the impact the bug has on the
successful execution of the software system. Consequently, tool support for the person …

Software maintenance is crucial for software projects evolution and success: code should be
kept up-to-date and error-free, this with little effort and continuous updates for the end-users …

Feedback from software users constitutes a vital part in the evolution of software projects. By
filing issue reports, users help identify and fix bugs, document software code, and enhance …

Modern version control systems, eg, GitHub, include bug tracking mechanisms that
developers can use to highlight the presence of bugs. This is done by means of bug reports …

Finding security vulnerabilities requires a different mindset than finding general faults in
software—thinking like an attacker. Therefore, security engineers looking to prioritize …

Manually inspecting bugs to determine their severity is often an enormous but essential
software development task, especially when many participants generate a large number of …

The reliability of a prediction model depends on the quality of the data from which it was
trained. Therefore, defect prediction models may be unreliable if they are trained using noisy …

Refactorings are-as defined by Fowler-behavior preserving source code transformations.
Their main purpose is to improve maintainability or comprehensibility, or also reduce the …

Researchers proposed a wide range of approaches to build effective bug prediction models
that take into account multiple aspects of the software development process. Such models …

Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices. Previous studies
empirically assessed the impact of smells on code quality and clearly indicate their negative …