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Bug Reports Evolution in Open Source Systems

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Open Source Software communities usually utilize open bug reporting system to enable users to report and fix bugs. In addition, the lifetime of most open source system stays for long periods of time. In this work, we comprehensively examine the evolution of bug reports in four different open source systems from various languages. The selected project are analyzed since 2004 in order to find how many bugs are reported compared to their resolution. We report our results and some recommendations to the open source community.

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  1. Al-Kharj College of Technology, Al-Kharj, Saudi Arabia

    Wajdi Aljedaani

  2. Network Security Research Group, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Kota Samarahan, Malaysia

    Yasir Javed

  3. Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Yasir Javed

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  1. Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Mamdouh Alenezi

  2. Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

    Basit Qureshi

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Aljedaani, W., Javed, Y. (2018). Bug Reports Evolution in Open Source Systems. In: Alenezi, M., Qureshi, B. (eds) 5th International Symposium on Data Mining Applications. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 753. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78753-4_6

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