Bug reports document unexpected software behaviors experienced by users. To be
effective, they should allow bug triagers to easily understand and reproduce the potential …

When a bug manifests in a user-facing application, it is likely to be exposed through the
graphical user interface (GUI). Given the importance of visual information to the process of …

When bugs are reported, one important task is to check if they are new or if they were
reported before. Many approaches have been proposed to partially automate duplicate bug …

Text Retrieval (TR)-based approaches for bug localization rely on formulating an initial
query based on a bug report. Often, the query does not return the buggy software artifacts at …

Bug reports are essential for developers to confirm software problems, investigate their
causes, and validate fixes. Unfortunately, reports often miss important information or are …

Given the current transformative potential of research that sits at the intersection of Deep
Learning (DL) and Software Engineering (SE), an NSF-sponsored community workshop was …

Software developers rely on essential textual information from bug reports (such as
Observed Behavior, Expected Behavior, and Steps to Reproduce) to triage and fix software …

Software bug analysis based on the information retrieval (IR) technology is widely studied
and used for bug understanding, localization and fixing. IR technology with various textual …

Daily horror stories related to software vulnerabilities necessitates the understanding of how
vulnerabilities are discovered. Identification of data sources that can be leveraged to …

In open source communities, there are numerous duplicate issue reports, considered as
useless and negligible by developers. Conversely, some researches argued that duplicates …