Abstract Context Reproducibility of Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) studies is an
essential part for improving their credibility, as it offers the opportunity to the research …

Just-in-Time (JIT) defect prediction-a technique which aims to predict bugs at change level-
has been paid more attention. JIT defect prediction leverages the SZZ approach to identify …

Turnover is the phenomenon of continuous influx and retreat of human resources in a team.
Despite being well-studied in many settings, turnover has not been characterized for open …

Bug resolution refers to the activity that developers perform to diagnose, fix, test, and
document bugs during software development and maintenance. It is a collaborative activity …

Bug reports are essential software artifacts that describe software bugs, especially in open-
source software. Lately, due to the availability of a large number of bug reports, a …

Developers often receive many feature requests. To implement these features, developers
can leverage various methods from third party libraries. In this work, we propose an …

In recent years, the use of Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to automate the localization
of buggy files, given a bug report, has shown promising results. The abundance of …

When identifying the origin of software bugs, many studies assume that “a bug was
introduced by the lines of code that were modified to fix it”. However, this assumption does …

The SZZ algorithm for identifying bug-inducing changes has been widely used to evaluate
defect prediction techniques and to empirically investigate when, how, and by whom bugs …

Software developers and maintainers often need to locate code units responsible for a
particular bug. A number of Information Retrieval (IR) techniques have been proposed to …