Analyzing Networks of Issue Reports
Borg, Markus LU ; Pfahl, Dietmar LU and Runeson, Per LU
(2013)
17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
p.79-88
- Abstract
- Completely analyzed and closed issue reports in software development projects, particularly in the development of safety-critical systems, often carry important information about issue-related change locations. These locations may be in the source code, as well as traces to test cases affected by the issue, and related design and requirements documents. In order to help developers analyze new issues, knowledge about issue clones and duplicates, as well as other relations between the new issue and existing issue reports would be useful. This paper analyses, in an exploratory study, issue reports contained in two Issue Management Systems (IMS) containing approximately 20.000 issue reports. The purpose of the analysis is to gain a better... (More)
- Completely analyzed and closed issue reports in software development projects, particularly in the development of safety-critical systems, often carry important information about issue-related change locations. These locations may be in the source code, as well as traces to test cases affected by the issue, and related design and requirements documents. In order to help developers analyze new issues, knowledge about issue clones and duplicates, as well as other relations between the new issue and existing issue reports would be useful. This paper analyses, in an exploratory study, issue reports contained in two Issue Management Systems (IMS) containing approximately 20.000 issue reports. The purpose of the analysis is to gain a better understanding of relationships between issue reports
in IMSs. We found that link-mining explicit references can reveal complex networks of issue reports. Furthermore, we found that textual similarity analysis might have the potential to complement the explicitly signaled links by recommending additional relations. In line with work in other fields, links between software artifacts have a potential to improve search and navigation in large software engineering projects. (Less)
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- author
- Borg, Markus
LU
; Pfahl, Dietmar
LU
and Runeson, Per
LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2013
- type
- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- information retrieval, link mining, safety development, impact analysis, issue reports
- host publication
- [Host publication title missing]
- pages
- 10 pages
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 17th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
- conference location
- Genoa, Italy
- conference dates
- 2013-03-06
- external identifiers
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- wos:000321127000010
- scopus:84877266356
- ISSN
- 1944-2793
- 1534-5351
- DOI
- 10.1109/CSMR.2013.18
- project
- Embedded Applications Software Engineering
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 465b26c6-d6c8-4903-81dd-88ddd3a73a0a (old id 3562234)
- date added to LUP
- 2016-04-01 11:11:57
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abstract = {{Completely analyzed and closed issue reports in software development projects, particularly in the development of safety-critical systems, often carry important information about issue-related change locations. These locations may be in the source code, as well as traces to test cases affected by the issue, and related design and requirements documents. In order to help developers analyze new issues, knowledge about issue clones and duplicates, as well as other relations between the new issue and existing issue reports would be useful. This paper analyses, in an exploratory study, issue reports contained in two Issue Management Systems (IMS) containing approximately 20.000 issue reports. The purpose of the analysis is to gain a better understanding of relationships between issue reports<br/><br>
in IMSs. We found that link-mining explicit references can reveal complex networks of issue reports. Furthermore, we found that textual similarity analysis might have the potential to complement the explicitly signaled links by recommending additional relations. In line with work in other fields, links between software artifacts have a potential to improve search and navigation in large software engineering projects.}},
author = {{Borg, Markus and Pfahl, Dietmar and Runeson, Per}},
booktitle = {{[Host publication title missing]}},
issn = {{1944-2793}},
keywords = {{information retrieval; link mining; safety development; impact analysis; issue reports}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{79--88}},
publisher = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
title = {{Analyzing Networks of Issue Reports}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/2462101/3562238.pdf}},
doi = {{10.1109/CSMR.2013.18}},
year = {{2013}},
}