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[PAST EVENT] Automated Management of Bug Reports
Speaker: Oscar Chaparro, University of Texas at Dallas
Title: Automated Management of Bug Reports
User-written bug reports are the main information source for software
developers to triage and fix the reported software bugs.
Unfortunately, many bug reports are unclear, ambiguous, and/or miss
critical information. In consequence, developers are often unable to
reproduce the bugs, let alone fix them in the code. Current bug
reporting technology, which is mostly passive and does not verify the
information provided by the users, provides little help in improving
the quality of bug reports.
This presentation focuses on my research aimed at improving the
quality of bug reports and bug resolution tasks that rely on bug
reports. The presentation includes summaries of my prior research,
describing: (1) empirical work on the discovery of discourse patterns
used by reporters to describe bugs; (2) an automated approach for
detecting missing information in bug reports; and (3) the use of query
reduction to improve bug localization and duplicate bug report
detection. The presentation will also present my current work on
providing automated feedback to reporters on the quality of the steps
to reproduce in their bug reports, and will conclude with my long-term
research plans for transforming bug reporting and resolution via
intelligent and interactive conversation systems.
Bio:
Oscar Chaparro is a Ph.D. candidate in Software Engineering at the
University of Texas at Dallas, advised by Dr. Andrian Marcus. His
research interests lie in software maintenance and evolution. His
current research aims at improving the quality of bug reports written
by end users and assisting software developers during bug triage and
resolution. He has authored several publications in top software
engineering venues, such as ESEC/FSE, and obtained the IEEE TCSE
Distinguished Paper Award at ICSME?17. He served on the organizing and
program committee of the DySDoc3 workshop in 2018. Oscar received his
B.Eng. and M.Eng. degrees from Universidad Nacional de Colombia and
has four years of industry experience in software research and
development.
Contact
Denys Poshyvanyk