Reducing the effort of bug report triage: Recommenders for development-oriented decisions

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Anvik, John ^a,c   Murphy, Gail C ^b  

^a CENTRAL WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c Department of Computer Science ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bug report triage; Configuration assistance; Machine learning; Recommendation; Task assignment

Indexed keywords

BUG REPORTS; CONFIGURATION ASSISTANCE; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; MACHINE-LEARNING; OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS; RECOMMENDATION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TASK ASSIGNMENT;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 80052315877     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2000791.2000794     Document Type: Article

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