Predictive models are one of the most important techniques that are widely applied in many
areas of software engineering. There have been a large number of primary studies that …

Due to the increasing scale and complexity of software products, software maintenance
especially on bug resolution has become a challenging task. Generally in large-scale …

With the popularity of smartphones and mobile devices, mobile application (aka “app”)
markets have been growing exponentially in terms of number of users and downloads. App …

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 …

In a bug tracking system, different testers or users may submit multiple reports on the same
bugs, referred to as duplicates, which may cost extra maintenance efforts in triaging and …

Technical debt is a metaphor to describe the situation in which long-term code quality is
traded for short-term goals in software projects. Recently, the concept of self-admitted …

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 …

Technical debt is a metaphor to reflect the tradeoff software engineers make between short-
term benefits and long-term stability. Self-admitted technical debt (SATD), a variant of …

To design effective tools for detecting and recovering from software failures requires a deep
understanding of software bug characteristics. We study software bug characteristics by …

Detecting duplicate bug reports helps reduce triaging efforts and save time for developers in
fixing the same issues. Among several automated detection approaches, text-based …