Blocking bugs, a type of bugs that prevents other bugs from being fixed, significantly
increase the fixed time of both themself and the blocked bugs. Thus, these blocking bugs …

Context: Blocking bugs prevents other bugs from being fixed, which is difficult to repair and
negatively impacts software quality. During software maintenance, developers usually try to …

The international array for real-time geostrophic oceanography (Argo) project is committed
to rapidly and precisely acquiring comprehensive 3-D data on ocean temperature and …

Software development projects are prone to bugs that can hinder the development process
and delay software release. Among the most critical bugs are blocking bugs (BB), which …

Many prediction models and approaches have been introduced during the past decades
that try to forecast bugged code elements based on static source code metrics, change and …

The recent advances of machine learning, in particular neural language models, has excited
significant growth on a few software engineering research fields. Bug report analysis is one …

Abstract Software projects use Issue-Tracking Systems (ITS) like JIRA to track and organize
issues and their workflows. Issues are often interconnected via different links, such as …