Abstract Information retrieval fault localization (IRFL) is a popular research field and many
IRFL approaches have been proposed recently. Unfortunately, the evaluation of some of …

Abstract Do Deep Learning (DL) techniques actually help to improve the performance of
duplicate bug report detection? Prior studies suggest that they do, if the duplicate bug report …

For over two decades, software engineering (SE) researchers have been importing tools
and techniques from information retrieval (IR). Initial results have been quite positive. For …

Bug localization is an important field in software engineering research. The traditional bug
localization approaches based on information retrieval separate words through lexical …

Bug localization is the process through which the buggy source code files are located
regarding a certain bug report. Bug localization is an overwhelming and time-consuming …

The daily tasks for Developers are searching source code, to find pieces of code to reuse, to
find where to implement changes, in order to fix a coming bugs implied by a specific report …

[EN] Machine Learning (ML) is known as the branch of artificial intelligence that gathers
statistical, probabilistic, and optimization algorithms, which learn empirically. ML can exploit …