EASE 2025
Tue 17 - Fri 20 June 2025 Istanbul, Turkey
Thu 19 Jun 2025 14:55 - 15:05 at Workshop Room - Bugs Chair(s): Beyza Eken

Lately, software development has become a predominantly online process, as more teams host and monitor their projects remotely. Sophisticated approaches employ issue tracking systems like Jira, predicting the time required to resolve issues and effectively assigning and prioritizing project tasks. Several methods have been developed to address this challenge, widely known as bug-fix time prediction, yet they exhibit significant limitations. Most consider only textual issue data and/or use techniques that overlook the semantics and metadata of issues (e.g., priority or assignee expertise). Many also fail to distinguish actual development effort from administrative delays, including assignment and review phases, leading to estimates that do not reflect the true effort needed. In this work, we build an issue monitoring system that extracts the actual effort required to fix issues on a per-project basis. Our approach employs topic modeling to capture issue semantics and leverages metadata (components, labels, priority, issue type, assignees) for interpretable resolution time analysis. Final predictions are generated by an aggregated model, enabling contributors to make informed decisions. Evaluation across multiple projects shows the system can effectively estimate resolution time and provide valuable insights.

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