Bug Reports for Desktop Software and Mobile Apps in GitHub: What's the Difference?

As the number of desktop software and mobile apps is rapidly increasing, resolving bugs is a key task. Developers often examine bug reports (BRs) in software repositories to get hints for fixing the bugs. The quality of BRs is important. Pieter Hooimeijer and Westley Weimer created a descriptive mod...

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Published in:IEEE software 2019-01, Vol.36 (1), p.63-71
Main Authors: Zhang, Tao, Chen, Jiachi, Luo, Xiapu, Li, Tao
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications programs
bug report
bug tracking systems
Computer applications
Computer bugs
Debugging
J computer applications
J.9 mobile applications
mining software repositories
Mobile applications
Mobile communication
Mobile computing
Repositories
Software
Software maintenance
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Summary:As the number of desktop software and mobile apps is rapidly increasing, resolving bugs is a key task. Developers often examine bug reports (BRs) in software repositories to get hints for fixing the bugs. The quality of BRs is important. Pieter Hooimeijer and Westley Weimer created a descriptive model for the lifetime of a BR.
ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2017.377142400