Multi-level reranking approach for bug localization
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2016
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Bug fixing has a key role in software quality evaluation. Bug fixing starts with the bug localization step, in which developers use textual bug information to find location of source codes which have the bug. Bug localization is a tedious and time consuming process. Information retrieval requires understanding the programme's goal, coding structure, programming logic and the relevant attributes of bug. Information retrieval (IR) based bug localization is a retrieval task, where bug reports and source files represent the queries and documents, respectively. In this paper, we propose BugCatcher, a newly developed bug localization method based on multi-level re-ranking IR technique. We evaluate BugCatcher on three open source projects with approximately 3400 bugs. Our experiments show that multi-level reranking approach to bug localization is promising. Retrieval performance and accuracy of BugCatcher are better than current bug localization tools, and BugCatcher has the best Top N, Mean Average Precision (MAP) and Mean Reciprocal Rank (MRR) values for all datasets. © 2016 Wiley Publishing Ltd
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Computer software selection and evaluation , Natural language processing systems , Open source software , Quality control , Bug localizations , Coding structures , Mean reciprocal ranks , Open source projects , Programming logic , Re-ranking , Retrieval performance , Software quality evaluation , Information retrieval