An approach to detecting duplicate bug reports using natural language and execution information

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 461-470

  Xiaoyin, Wang ^a   Lu, Zhang ^a   Tao, Xie ^b   Anvik, John ^c   Sun, Jiasu ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

^b North Carolina State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Duplicate bug report; Execution information; Information retrieval

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; LINGUISTICS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; QUERY LANGUAGES;

DUPLICATE BUG REPORT; EXECUTION INFORMATION; FIREFOX; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NEW APPROACHES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS;

QUERY LANGUAGES; INFORMATION USE;

BUG REPORTS; DUPLICATE BUG REPORT; EXECUTION INFORMATION; FIREFOX; NATURAL LANGUAGES; NEW APPROACHES; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS;

EID: 57349172049     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1368088.1368151     Document Type: Conference Paper

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