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NRPredictor: an ensemble learning and feature selection based approach for predicting the non-reproducible bugs

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  • Kulbhushan Bansal

    (Chaudhary Devi Lal University)

  • Gopal Singh

    (Maharshi Dayanand University)

  • Sunesh Malik

    (Maharaja Surajmal Institute of Technology)

  • Harish Rohil

    (Chaudhary Devi Lal University)

Abstract

Software maintenance is essential and significant phase of software development life cycle. In software projects, issue tracking systems are used to collect, categorise, and track filed issues. The distinct bug reports are not being able to reproduced by software developers and hence, marked as non-reproducible. Non-reproducible problems are a major performance issue in bug repositories since they take up a lot of time and effort from developers. The goal of this paper is to create a prediction model for detecting non-reproducible bugs. Due to sheer unexpected nature of bug fixation, bug management is frequently a painful undertaking for software engineers. Non reproducible bugs add to the difficulty of this vexing indexing. This paper deals with the development of a early prediction model for identification of non-reproducible bugs. In this work, a novel framework named NRPredictor, has been proposed which uses three ensemble learning and one feature selection algorithm for Non-Reproducible bug prediction. The prediction performance of the proposed framework has been examined using projects of Bugzilla bug tracking system. Three open-source projects viz. Mozilla Firefox, Eclipse and NetBeans have been used for evaluating the prediction performance. While forecasting the fixability of bug reports, the experimental findings reveal that NRPredictor surpasses traditional machine learning techniques. For Mozilla Firefox, Eclipse, and NetBeans projects, NRPredictor, delivers performance (in terms of F1-score) up to 88.3, 87.8, and 87.4% respectively. An improvement in performance up to 6.1, 5 and 2.7% has been obtained for NetBeans, Eclipse, and Mozilla Firefox projects, respectively as compared to the best performing standalone machine learning classifier.

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  • Kulbhushan Bansal & Gopal Singh & Sunesh Malik & Harish Rohil, 2023. "NRPredictor: an ensemble learning and feature selection based approach for predicting the non-reproducible bugs," International Journal of System Assurance Engineering and Management, Springer;The Society for Reliability, Engineering Quality and Operations Management (SREQOM),India, and Division of Operation and Maintenance, Lulea University of Technology, Sweden, vol. 14(3), pages 989-1009, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:ijsaem:v:14:y:2023:i:3:d:10.1007_s13198-023-01902-7
    DOI: 10.1007/s13198-023-01902-7
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