Reference : DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization
Scientific journals : Article
Engineering, computing & technology : Computer science
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52228
DigBug—Pre/post-processing operator selection for accurate bug localization
English
Kim, Kisub [> >]
Ghatpande, Sankalp [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > SerVal]
Liu, Kui [> >]
Koyuncu, Anil [> >]
Kim, Dongsun [> >]
Bissyande, Tegawendé François D Assise mailto [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX >]
Klein, Jacques [University of Luxembourg > Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SNT) > TruX]
Le Traon, Yves []
Jul-2022
Journal of Systems and Software
189
Yes
International
0164-1212
[en] Bug report ; Bug localization ; Fault localization ; Bug characteristics ; Information retrieval ; Operator combination
[en] Bug localization is a recurrent maintenance task in software development. It aims at identifying relevant code locations (e.g., code files) that must be inspected to fix bugs. When such bugs are reported by users, the localization process become often overwhelming as it is mostly a manual task due to incomplete and informal information (written in natural languages) available in bug reports. The research community has then invested in automated approaches, notably using Information Retrieval techniques. Unfortunately, reported performance in the literature is still limited for practical usage. Our key observation, after empirically investigating a large dataset of bug reports as well as workflow and results of state-of-the-art approaches, is that most approaches attempt localization for every bug report without considering the different characteristics of the bug reports. We propose DigBug as a straightforward approach to specialized bug localization. This approach selects pre/post-processing operators based on the attributes of bug reports; and the bug localization model is parameterized in accordance as well. Our experiments confirm that departing from “one-size-fits-all” approaches, DigBug outperforms the state-of-the-art techniques by 6 and 14 percentage points, respectively in terms of MAP and MRR on average.
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/52228
10.1016/j.jss.2022.111300
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164121222000528
H2020 ; 949014 - NATURAL - Natural Program Repair

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