While some areas of software engineering knowledge present great advances with respect
to the automation of processes, tools, and practices, areas such as software maintenance …

Due to the unavoidable bugs appearing in the most of the software systems, bug resolution
has become one of the most important activities in software maintenance. For large-scale …

Modern version control systems, eg, GitHub, include bug tracking mechanisms that
developers can use to highlight the presence of bugs. This is done by means of bug reports …

Bug fixing is an essential activity in the software maintenance, because most of the software
systems have unavoidable defects. When new bugs are submitted, triagers have to find and …

Bug assignment is the task of ranking candidate developers in terms of their potential
competence to fix a bug report. Numerous methods have been developed to address this …

Daily large number of bug reports are received in large open and close source bug tracking
systems. Dealing with these reports manually utilizes time and resources which leads to …

Bug localization is the automated process of finding the possible faulty files in a software
project. Bug localization allows developers to concentrate on vital files. Information retrieval …

Many bugs and defects occur during software testing and maintenance. These bugs should
be resolved as soon as possible, to improve software quality. However, bug triage aims to …

Context Existing bug triage approaches for developer recommendation systems are mainly
based on machine learning (ML) techniques. These approaches have shown low prediction …

Bug assignment is one of the important activities in bug triaging that aims to assign bugs to
the appropriate developers for fixing. Many recommended automatic bug assignment …