Improving the readability of defect reports

Bogdan Dit, Andrian Marcus

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Abstract

Bug reports and the user comments associated with them are an important source of information for developers. When many comments are posted in response to a bug description, the discussion becomes difficult to understand. In order to keep discussions coherent and easy to understand, comments should specify if they contain responses to previously posted comments and should not refer to more than one topic. We propose a system, which recommends developers a set of comments related to their own comment, such that developers can explicitly make connections between the new comment and existing ones. The goal is to improve the readability of the discussion thread.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRSSE '08 - Proc. 2008 International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, Co-located with the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering
Pages47-49
Number of pages3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, Co-located with the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, RSSE '08 - Atlanta, GA, United States
Duration: 9 Nov 20089 Nov 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM SIGSOFT Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering

Conference

Conference2008 International Workshop on Recommendation Systems for Software Engineering, Co-located with the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, RSSE '08
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta, GA
Period9/11/089/11/08

Keywords

  • Comprehension
  • Defect reports
  • Language analysis

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