It's not a bug, it's a feature: How misclassification impacts bug prediction

Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 392-401

  Herzig, Kim ^a   Just, Sascha ^a   Zeller, Andreas ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

bias; bug reports; data quality; Mining software repositories; noise

Indexed keywords

BIAS; BUG REPORTS; DATA QUALITY; MINING SOFTWARE REPOSITORIES; NOISE;

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 84883717621     PISSN: 02705257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSE.2013.6606585     Document Type: Conference Paper

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