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Tracing Life Cycle of Software Bugs

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Dependability Engineering and Complex Systems (DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2016)

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The paper deals with the problem of monitoring software development and maintenance processes. In particular, we concentrate on data reported in software bug repositories. These data characterize the progress and effectiveness of the above mentioned processes. To analyze these data we have developed a special program which extracts information from typical bug repositories (e.g. Bugzilla) and generates various useful statistics. The analysis methodology is based on problem handling graphs (PHGs) and various metrics. The usefulness of this approach has been illustrated for some real open source and commercial projects. We present the measurement methodology and interpretation of the obtained results, which confirmed their practical significance.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Warsaw University of Technology, Nowowiejska 15/19, 00-665, Warsaw, Poland

    Bartosz Dobrzyński & Janusz Sosnowski

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  1. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Wojciech Zamojski

  2. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Jacek Mazurkiewicz

  3. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

    Jarosław Sugier

  4. Department of Computer Engineering, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

    Tomasz Walkowiak

  5. Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute, Warszawa, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Dobrzyński, B., Sosnowski, J. (2016). Tracing Life Cycle of Software Bugs. In: Zamojski, W., Mazurkiewicz, J., Sugier, J., Walkowiak, T., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Dependability Engineering and Complex Systems. DepCoS-RELCOMEX 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 470. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39639-2_10

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