Abstract
This paper proposes a bug triaging method to reduce the time to fix bugs in large-scale open source software development. Our method considers the upper limit of tasks which can be fixed by a developer in a certain period. In this paper, we conduct a case study of applying our method to Mozilla Firefox and Eclipse Platform projects and show the following findings: (1) using our method mitigates the situation where the majority of bug-fixing tasks are assigned to particular developers, (2) our method can reduce up to 50%-83% of time to fix bugs compared with the manual bug triaging method and up to 34%-38% compared with the existing method, and (3) the two factors, Preference (adequate for fixing a bug) and Limit (limits of developers' working hours), used in our method have an dispersion effect on the task assignment.
| Translated title of the contribution | A Bug Triaging Method for Reducing the Time to Fix Bugs in Large-scale Open Source Software Development |
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| Original language | Japanese |
| Pages (from-to) | 669-681 |
| Number of pages | 13 |
| Journal | 情報処理学会論文誌 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Publication status | Published - Feb 15 2015 |