Evaluating the usefulness of IR-based fault localization techniques
Evaluating the usefulness of IR-based fault localization techniques
Qianqian Wang,Chris Parnin,A. Orso
2015 · DOI: 10.1145/2771783.2771797
International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis · 144 Citations
TLDR
The investigation shows that bug reports do not always contain rich information, and that low-quality bug reports can considerably affect the effectiveness of IR-based techniques, and also shows, through a user study, that high- quality bug reports benefit developers just as much as they benefit IR- based techniques.