BushraDBR: An Automatic Approach to Retrieving Duplicate Bug Reports
Ra'Fat Al-Msie'deen

TL;DR
BushraDBR is an automatic method that uses textual similarity and information retrieval techniques to efficiently identify duplicate bug reports in bug tracking systems, saving time and effort in software maintenance.
Contribution
It introduces a novel approach combining LSI and FCA to proactively retrieve duplicate bug reports before they are officially submitted.
Findings
Effective retrieval of duplicate bug reports demonstrated on public datasets.
BushraDBR reduces redundant work by early detection of duplicates.
Approach outperforms existing methods in efficiency and accuracy.
Abstract
A Bug Tracking System (BTS), such as Bugzilla, is generally utilized to track submitted Bug Reports (BRs) for a particular software system. Duplicate Bug Report (DBR) retrieval is the process of obtaining a DBR in the BTS. This process is important to avoid needless work from engineers on DBRs. To prevent wasting engineer resources, such as effort and time, on previously submitted (or duplicate) BRs, it is essential to find and retrieve DBRs as soon as they are submitted by software users. Thus, this paper proposes an automatic approach (called BushraDBR) that aims to assist an engineer (called a triager) to retrieve DBRs and stop the duplicates before they start. Where BushraDBR stands for Bushra Duplicate Bug Reports retrieval process. Therefore, when a new BR is sent to the Bug Repository (BRE), an engineer checks whether it is a duplicate of an existing BR in BRE or not via…
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