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What Makes a Good Bug Report?

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Universität des Saarlandes – Informatik
Informatik Campus des Saarlandes
Campus E9 1 (CISPA)
66123 Saarbrücken
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The Software Evolution project at the Software Engineering Chair, Saarland University, analyzes version and bug databases to predict failure-prone modules, related changes, and future development activities.

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What Makes a Good Bug Report?

To find out, we conducted a survey among APACHE, ECLIPSE, and MOZILLA developers. The analysis of the 156 responses shows that steps to reproduce and stack traces are most sought after, while inaccurate steps to reproduce and incomplete information pose the largest hurdles. This insight is helpful to design new bug tracking tools that guide reporters at providing more helpful information. Our CUEZILLA prototype is a such tool and provides reporters with feedback on the quality of new bug reports and recommends to add missing elements.

Papers

  • What Makes a Good Bug Report?. Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, Cathrin Weiß, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann. Technical Report, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, September 2007. [PDF]
    Abstract. The information in bug reports influences the speed at which bugs are fixed. However, bug reports differ in their quality of information. In order to determine the elements that developer widely use to fix bugs and the problems frequently encountered, we conducted a survey among APACHE, ECLIPSE, and MOZILLA developers. The analysis of the 156 responses shows that steps to reproduce and stack traces are most sought after, while inaccurate steps to reproduce and incomplete information pose the largest hurdles. This insight is helpful to design new bug tracking tools that guide reporters at providing more helpful information. Our CUEZILLA prototype is a such tool and provides reporters with feedback on the quality of new bug reports and recommends to add missing elements. We trained CUEZILLA on a sample of 289 bug reports, rated by developers as part of the survey. In our evaluation, CUEZILLA was able to predict the quality of 31-48% of bugs reports accurately.

  • Quality of Bug Reports in Eclipse. Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, Cathrin Weiß, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann. Proc. 2007 OOPSLA Workshop on Eclipse Technology eXchange (ETX), Montreal, Canada, October 2007. [PDF]
    Abstract. The information in bug reports influences the speed at which bugs are fixed. However, bug reports differ in their quality of information. We conducted a survey responses among the ECLIPSE developers to determine the information in reports that they widely used and the problems frequently encountered. Our results show that steps to reproduce and stack traces are most sought after by developers, while inaccurate steps to reproduce and incomplete information pose the largest hurdles. Surprisingly, developers are indifferent to bug duplicates. Such insight is useful to design new bug tracking tools that guide reporters at providing more helpful information. We also present a prototype of a quality-meter tool that measures the quality of bug reports by scanning its content.

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