EASE 2024
Tue 18 - Fri 21 June 2024 Salerno, Italy
Thu 20 Jun 2024 12:00 - 12:15 at Room Capri - Defects Chair(s): Davide Falessi

Issue reports are an important part of the software development process. They help developers identify and fix problems in their code. However, problems described in these reports often lack important information, such as the Observed Behavior (OB), Expected Behavior (EB), and Steps to Reproduce (S2R). This can lead to valuable developer time being wasted on gathering the relevant information. This study aims to address this issue by developing a tool that guides reporters in providing the necessary information in an industrial setting. The study is conducted at Softtech, a software subsidiary of the largest private bank in Turkey. The proposed approach is developed for issue reports written specifically in Turkish language. It is motivated by the need for issue report classification tools that can handle the unique characteristics of the Turkish language, such as the presence of many compound words. We first manually analyze and label 1,041 issue reports for the existence of OB, S2R, and EB, and then present the specific patterns we found describing the related information. Next, we use morphological analysis to extract keywords and suffixes, and then use them for classification with a machine learning based approach. In addition, we conduct a feasibility study to assess the potential of using large language models for issue report classification tasks as a direction for future research. The results indicate that the tool using the machine learning-based approach can be used to guide in improving the quality of issue reports at Softtech, thereby save valuable developer time.

Thu 20 Jun

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11:00 - 12:25
DefectsIndustry / Research Papers / Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results / Journal-first at Room Capri
Chair(s): Davide Falessi University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
11:00
15m
Talk
Context Switch Sensitive Fault LocalizationDistinguished Paper Award
Research Papers
Ferenc Horv�th University of Szeged, Department of Software Engineering, Roland Aszmann University of Szeged, Department of Software Engineering, Péter Attila Soha Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Árpád Beszédes Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Tibor Gyimothy
11:15
15m
Talk
Improving classifier-based effort-aware software defect prediction by reducing ranking errors
Research Papers
Yuchen GUO Xi'an Jiaotong University, Martin Shepperd Brunel University London, Ning Li School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University
Pre-print
11:30
15m
Talk
Issues and Their Causes in WebAssembly Applications: An Empirical Study
Research Papers
Muhammad Waseem University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland, Teerath Das University of Jyväskylä, Aakash Ahmad School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany, Peng Liang Wuhan University, China, Tommi Mikkonen University of Jyvaskyla
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11:45
15m
Talk
Taming App Reliability: Mobile Analytics ‘in the wild’
Industry
Julian Harty Commercetest Limited, Arosha K Bandara The Open University
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12:00
15m
Talk
Improving the Quality of Software Issue Report Descriptions in Turkish: An Industrial Case Study at Softtech
Journal-first
Ethem Utku Aktas Softtech Inc., Ebru Cakmak Microsoft EMEA, Mete Cihad Inan Softtech Research and Development, Cemal Yilmaz Sabancı University
12:15
10m
Talk
Unraveling the Influences on Bug Fixing Time: A Comparative Analysis of Causal Inference Model
Short Papers, Vision and Emerging Results
Sien Reeve O. Peralta Waseda University, Hironori Washizaki Waseda University, Yoshiaki Fukazawa Waseda University, Yuki Noyori Hitachi, Ltd., Shuhei Nojiri Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Reserch Laboratory, Hideyuki Kanuka Hitachi, Ltd.
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