For a large and evolving software system, the project team could receive a large number of
bug reports. Locating the source code files that need to be changed in order to fix the bugs is …

Locating bugs is important, difficult, and expensive, particularly for large-scale systems. To
address this, natural language information retrieval techniques are increasingly being used …

A bug report is mainly used to find a fault location in software maintenance. It contains
several fields such as summary, description, status and version. The description field …

Researchers have proposed a number of tools for automatic bug localization. Given a
program and a description of the failure, such tools pinpoint a set of statements that are most …

During the evolution of a software system, a large number of bug reports are submitted.
Locating the source code files that need to be fixed to resolve the bugs is a challenging …

Context Several issues or defects in released software during the maintenance phase are
reported to the development team. It is costly and time-consuming for developers to …

To deal with post-release bugs, many software projects set up public bug repositories for
users all over the world to report bugs that they have encountered. Recently, researchers …

Bug localization is the task of determining which source code entities are relevant to a bug
report. Manual bug localization is labor intensive since developers must consider thousands …

Bug localization refers to the automated process of locating the potential buggy files for a
given bug report. To help developers focus their attention to those files is crucial. Several …

Issue tracking systems are valuable resources during software maintenance activities and
contain information about the issues faced during the development of a project as well as …