EASE 2025
Tue 17 - Fri 20 June 2025 Istanbul, Turkey
Thu 19 Jun 2025 14:10 - 14:25 at Workshop Room - Bugs Chair(s): Beyza Eken

Duplicate bug reports make up 42% of all reports in bug tracking systems (e.g., Bugzilla), causing significant maintenance overhead. Hence, detecting and resolving duplicate bug reports is essential for effective issue management. Traditional techniques often focus on detecting textually similar duplicates. However, existing literature has shown that up to 23% of the duplicate bug reports are textually dissimilar. Moreover, about 78% of bug reports in open-source projects are very short (e.g., less than 100 words) often containing domain-specific terms or jargon, making the detection of their duplicate bug reports difficult. In this paper, we conduct a large-scale empirical study to investigate whether and how enrichment of bug reports with the explanations of their domain terms or jargon can help improve the detection of duplicate bug reports. We use 92,854 bug reports from three open-source systems, replicate seven existing baseline techniques for duplicate bug report detection, and answer two research questions in this work. We found significant performance gains in the existing techniques when explanations of domain-specific terms or jargon were leveraged to enrich the bug reports. Our findings also suggest that enriching bug reports with such explanations can significantly improve the detection of duplicate bug reports that are textually dissimilar.

Thu 19 Jun

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13:30 - 15:05
13:30
15m
Talk
ImageR: Enhancing Bug Report Clarity by Screenshots
AI Models / Data
Xuchen Tan York University, Deenu Yadav York University, Faiz Ahmed York University, Maleknaz Nayebi York University
13:45
10m
Talk
Privacy-Preserving Methods for Bug Severity Prediction
Industry Papers
Havvanur Dervişoğlu Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK), Rusen Halepmollasi Istanbul Technical University, Elif Eyvaz Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkiye (TUBITAK)
13:55
15m
Talk
The Art of Repair: Optimizing Iterative Program Repair with Instruction-Tuned Models
Research Papers
Fernando Vallecillos Ruiz Simula Research Laboratory, Max Hort Simula Research Laboratory, Leon Moonen Simula Research Laboratory
Pre-print Media Attached
14:10
15m
Talk
Understanding the Impact of Domain Term Explanation on Duplicate Bug Report Detection
Research Papers
Usmi Mukherjee Dalhousie University, Masud Rahman Dalhousie University
Pre-print
14:25
15m
Talk
Accelerating Delta Debugging through Probabilistic Monotonicity Assessment
Research Papers
Yonggang Tao University of New South Wales, Jingling Xue University of New South Wales
14:40
15m
Talk
Characterising Bugs in Jupyter Platform
Research Papers
Yutian Tang University of Glasgow, United Kingdom, Hongchen Cao ShanghaiTech University, Yuxi Chen University of Glasgow, David Lo Singapore Management University
14:55
10m
Short-paper
Towards an Interpretable Analysis for Estimating the Resolution Time of Software Issues
Short Papers, Emerging Results
Dimitrios-Nikitas Nastos Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Themistoklis Diamantopoulos Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Davide Tosi Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Martina Tropeano Università degli studi dell’Insubria, Varese - Italy, Andreas Symeonidis Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Pre-print