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Semantic Categorization of Software Bug Repositories for Severity Assignment Automation

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Bug triage is one of the crucial activities undertaken during the maintenance phase of large-scale software projects, to fix the bugs that appear. In this paper we propose an approach to automate one of the important activities of bug triage which is the bug severity assignment. The proposed approach is based on mining the historical bug repositories of software projects. It utilizes the Hierarchical Dirichlet Process (HDP) topic modeller to extract the topics shared by the historical bug reports, then categorizing them according to their proportions in the extracted topics using the K-means clustering algorithm. For each new submitted report, the top K similar reports are retrieved from their cluster using a novel weighted K-nearest neighbour algorithm that utilizes a similarity measure called Improved-Sqrt-Cosine similarity. The severity level of the new bug is assigned using a Dual-weighted voting scheme. The experimental results demonstrated that our proposed model improved the performance of the bug severity assignment task when compared against three baseline models in the context of two popular bug repositories, Eclipse and Mozilla.

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  1. Faculty of Informatics and Computer Science, British University in Egypt, El Shorouk, Egypt

    Abeer Hamdy & AbdulRahman El-Laithy

  2. Computers and Systems Department, Electronics Research Institute, Giza, Egypt

    Abeer Hamdy

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    Aneta Poniszewska-Marańda

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Management, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Wrocław, Poland

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Hamdy, A., El-Laithy, A. (2020). Semantic Categorization of Software Bug Repositories for Severity Assignment Automation. In: Jarzabek, S., Poniszewska-Marańda, A., Madeyski, L. (eds) Integrating Research and Practice in Software Engineering. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 851. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26574-8_2

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