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Extracting structural information from bug reports

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Nicolas Bettenburg,

Rahul Premraj,

Thomas Zimmermann,

Sunghun KimAuthors Info & Claims

MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories

Pages 27 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/1370750.1370757

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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In software engineering experiments, the description of bug reports is typically treated as natural language text, although it often contains stack traces, source code, and patches. Neglecting such structural elements is a loss of valuable information; structure usually leads to a better performance of machine learning approaches. In this paper, we present a tool called infoZilla that detects structural elements from bug reports with near perfect accuracy and allows us to extract them. We anticipate that infoZilla can be used to leverage data from bug reports at a different granularity level that can facilitate interesting research in the future.

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Extracting structural information from bug reports
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Maintaining software
    2. Software verification and validation
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software functional properties
      1. Correctness

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MSR '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international working conference on Mining software repositories

May 2008

162 pages

ISBN:9781605580241

DOI:10.1145/1370750

General Chair:
Ahmed E. Hassan
Queen's University, Canada
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University of Lugano, Switzerland
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Michael W. Godfrey
University of Waterloo, Canada

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