Title | Filtering Bug Reports for Fix-Time Analysis |
Publication Type | Workshop Paper |
Authors | Lamkanfi, A, Demeyer S |
Workshop Name | 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR 2012) |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
Place Published | Szeged, Hungary |
Year of Publication | 2012 |
Publication Language | eng |
Abstract | Several studies have experimented with data mining algorithms to predict the fix-time of reported bugs. Unfortunately, the fix-times as reported in typical open-source cases are heavily skewed with a significant amount of reports registering fix-times less than a few minutes. Consequently, we propose to include an additional filtering step to improve the quality of the underlying data in order to gain better results. Using a small-scale replication of a previously published bug fix-time prediction experiment, we show that the additional filtering of reported bugs indeed improves the outcome of the results. |
Notes | [acceptance ratio (ERA Track): 17/43= 39%] |
DOI | http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CSMR.2012.47 |