Software errors and complexity: an empirical investigation0
Communications of the ACM
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A case study in root cause defect analysis
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Using evolution patterns to find duplicated bugs
Using evolution patterns to find duplicated bugs
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ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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A characteristic study on failures of production distributed data-parallel programs
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Intelligent Data Analysis
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Twenty-seven automatically extractable bug fix patterns are defined using the syntax components and context of the source code involved in bug fix changes. Bug fix patterns are extracted from the configuration management repositories of seven open source projects, all written in Java (Eclipse, Columba, JEdit, Scarab, ArgoUML, Lucene, and MegaMek). Defined bug fix patterns cover 45.7% to 63.3% of the total bug fix hunk pairs in these projects. The frequency of occurrence of each bug fix pattern is computed across all projects. The most common individual patterns are MC-DAP (method call with different actual parameter values) at 14.9---25.5%, IF-CC (change in if conditional) at 5.6---18.6%, and AS-CE (change of assignment expression) at 6.0---14.2%. A correlation analysis on the extracted pattern instances on the seven projects shows that six have very similar bug fix pattern frequencies. Analysis of if conditional bug fix sub-patterns shows a trend towards increasing conditional complexity in if conditional fixes. Analysis of five developers in the Eclipse projects shows overall consistency with project-level bug fix pattern frequencies, as well as distinct variations among developers in their rates of producing various bug patterns. Overall, data in the paper suggest that developers have difficulty with specific code situations at surprisingly consistent rates. There appear to be broad mechanisms causing the injection of bugs that are largely independent of the type of software being produced.