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ASE 2021
Sun 14 - Sat 20 November 2021 Australia
Tue 16 Nov 2021 19:20 - 19:40 at Koala - Using Knowledge Chair(s): Dalal Alrajeh

Assigning bugs to the right components is the prerequisite to get the bugs analyzed and fixed. Classification-based techniques have been used in practice for assisting bug component assignments, for example, the BugBug tool developed by Mozilla. However, our study on 124,477 bugs in Mozilla products reveals that erroneous bug component assignments occur frequently and widely. Most errors are repeated errors and some errors are even misled by the BugBug tool. Our study reveals that complex component designs and misleading component names and bug report keywords confuse bug component assignment not only for bug reporters but also developers and even bug triaging tools. In this work, we propose a learning to rank framework that learns to assign components to bugs from correct, erroneous and irrelevant bug-component assignments in the history. To inform the learning, we construct a bug tossing knowledge graph which incorporates not only goal-oriented component tossing relationships but also rich information about component tossing community, component descriptions, and historical closed and tossed bugs, from which three categories and seven types of features for bug, component and bug-component relation can be derived. We evaluate our approach on a dataset of 98,587 closed bugs (including 29,100 tossed bugs) of 186 components in six Mozilla products. Our results show that our approach significantly improve bug component assignments for both tossed and non-tossed bugs over the BugBug tool and the BugBug tool enhanced with component tossing relationships, with >20% Top-k accuracies and >30% NDCG@k (k=1,3,5,10).

Tue 16 Nov

Displayed time zone: Hobart change

19:00 - 20:00
Using KnowledgeResearch Papers at Koala
Chair(s): Dalal Alrajeh Imperial College London
19:00
20m
Talk
Data-Driven Design and Evaluation of SMT Meta-Solving Strategies: Balancing Performance, Accuracy, and CostACM Distinguished Paper
Research Papers
Malte Mues TU Dortmund University, Falk Howar TU Dortmund University
19:20
20m
Talk
Reducing Bug Triaging Confusion by Learning from Mistakes with a Bug Tossing Knowledge GraphACM Distinguished Paper
Research Papers
Yanqi Su Australian National University, Zhenchang Xing Australian National University, Xin Peng Fudan University, Xin Xia Huawei Software Engineering Application Technology Lab, Chong Wang Fudan University, Xiwei (Sherry) Xu CSIRO’s Data61, Liming Zhu CSIRO’s Data61; UNSW
19:40
20m
Talk
ASE: A Value Set Decision Procedure for Symbolic Execution
Research Papers
Alireza S. Abyaneh University of Salzburg, Christoph Kirsch University of Salzburg; Czech Technical University
Pre-print