Software engineering practitioners often spend significant amount of time and effort to
debug. To help practitioners perform this crucial task, hundreds of papers have proposed …

The application of information retrieval techniques to search tasks in software engineering is
made difficult by the lexical gap between search queries, usually expressed in natural …

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

Automatic static analysis tools (ASATs), such as Findbugs, have a high false alarm rate. The
large number of false alarms produced poses a barrier to adoption. Researchers have …

Automatically localizing software bugs to the changesets that induced them has the potential
to improve software developer efficiency and to positively affect software quality. To facilitate …

Software debugging is tedious and time consuming. To reduce the manual effort needed for
debugging, researchers have proposed a considerable number of techniques to automate …

Due to the complexity of software systems, bugs are inevitable. Software debugging is
tedious and time consuming. To help developers perform this crucial task, a number of …

Many projects often receive more bug reports than what they can handle. To help debug and
close bug reports, a number of bug localization techniques have been proposed. These …

Current state-of-the-art automatic software repair (ASR) techniques rely heavily on
incomplete specifications, or test suites, to generate repairs. This, however, may cause ASR …

Context Tangled commits are changes to software that address multiple concerns at once.
For researchers interested in bugs, tangled commits mean that they actually study not only …