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Effective Prediction of Bug-Fixing Priority via Weighted Graph Convolutional Networks
Fang, Sen1; Tan, You Shuai1; Zhang, Tao1; Xu, Zhou2; Liu, Hui3
2021-06-01
Source PublicationIEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY
ISSN0018-9529
Volume70Issue:2Pages:563-574
Abstract

With the increasing number of software bugs, bug fixing plays an important role in software development and maintenance. To improve the efficiency of bug resolution, developers utilize bug reports to resolve given bugs. Especially, bug triagers usually depend on bugs' descriptions to suggest priority levels for reported bugs. However, manual priority assignment is a time-consuming and cumbersome task. To resolve this problem, recent studies have proposed many approaches to automatically predict the priority levels for the reported bugs. Unfortunately, these approaches still face two challenges that include words' nonconsecutive semantics in bug reports and the imbalanced data. In this article, we propose a novel approach that graph convolutional networks (GCN) based on weighted loss function to perform the priority prediction for bug reports. For the first challenge, we build a heterogeneous text graph for bug reports and apply GCN to extract words' semantics in bug reports. For the second challenge, we construct a weighted loss function in the training phase. We conduct the priority prediction on four open-source projects, including Mozilla, Eclipse, Netbeans, and GNU compiler collection. Experimental results show that our method outperforms two baseline approaches in terms of the F-measure by weighted average of 13.22%.

KeywordBug Report Graph Convolutional Network (Gcn) Priority Prediction
DOI10.1109/TR.2021.3074412
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Indexed BySCIE
Language英語English
WOS Research AreaComputer Science ; Engineering
WOS SubjectComputer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Software Engineering ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS IDWOS:000659549200012
PublisherIEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC, 445 HOES LANE, PISCATAWAY, NJ 08855-4141
Scopus ID2-s2.0-85106688725
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Document TypeJournal article
CollectionFaculty of Science and Technology
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
Corresponding AuthorZhang, Tao
Affiliation1.Faculty of Information Technology, Macau University Science and Technology, Macau, 999078, Macao
2.School of Big Data and Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, 400030, China
3.School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 100081, China
First Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
Corresponding Author AffilicationUniversity of Macau
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Fang, Sen,Tan, You Shuai,Zhang, Tao,et al. Effective Prediction of Bug-Fixing Priority via Weighted Graph Convolutional Networks[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY, 2021, 70(2), 563-574.
APA Fang, Sen., Tan, You Shuai., Zhang, Tao., Xu, Zhou., & Liu, Hui (2021). Effective Prediction of Bug-Fixing Priority via Weighted Graph Convolutional Networks. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY, 70(2), 563-574.
MLA Fang, Sen,et al."Effective Prediction of Bug-Fixing Priority via Weighted Graph Convolutional Networks".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON RELIABILITY 70.2(2021):563-574.
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