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Preventing Duplicate Bug Reports by Continuously Querying Bug Reports

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dc.contributor.authorHindle, Abram
dc.contributor.authorOnuckzo, C.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T12:12:39Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T12:12:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionBug deduplication or duplicate bug report detection is a hot topic in software engineering information retrieval research, but it is often not deployed. Typically to de-duplicate bug reports developers rely upon the search capabilities of the bug report software they employ, such as Bugzilla, Jira, or Github Issues. These search capabilities range from simple SQL string search to IR-based word indexing methods employed by search engines. Yet too often these searches do very little to stop the creation of duplicate bug reports. Some bug trackers have more than 10% of their bug reports marked as duplicate. Perhaps these bug tracker search engines are not enough? In this paper we propose a method of attempting to prevent duplicate bug reports before they start: continuously querying. That is as the bug reporter types in their bug report their text is used to query the bug database to find duplicate or related bug reports. This continuously querying bug reports allows the reporter to be alerted to duplicate bug reports as they report the bug, rather than formulating queries to find the duplicate bug report. Thus this work ushers in a new way of evaluating bug report deduplication techniques, as well as a new kind of bug deduplication task. We show that simple IR measures can address this problem but also that further research is needed to refine this novel process that is integrate-able into modern bug report systems.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/r3-vn47-dd05
dc.language.isoen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectDuplicate bug reports
dc.subjectIssue reports
dc.subjectDeduplication
dc.subjectInformation retrieval
dc.subjectJust in time
dc.subjectContinuously querying bug reports
dc.subjectContinuous query
dc.titlePreventing Duplicate Bug Reports by Continuously Querying Bug Reports
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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