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MSR 2021
Mon 17 - Wed 19 May 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021
Tue 18 May 2021 10:04 - 10:08 at MSR Room 1 - Developer communications Chair(s): Hourieh Khalajzadeh

The availability of quality information in bug reports that are created daily by software users is key to rapidly fixing software faults. Improving incomplete or deficient bug reports, which are numerous in many popular and actively developed open source software projects, can make software maintenance more effective and improve software quality. In this paper, we propose a system that addresses the problem of bug report incompleteness by automatically posing follow-up questions, intended to elicit answers that add value and provide missing information to a bug report. Our system is based on selecting follow-up questions from a large corpus of already posted follow-up questions on GitHub. To estimate the best follow-up question for a specific deficient bug report we combine two metrics based on: 1) the compatibility of a follow-up question to a specific bug report; and 2) the utility the expected answer to the follow-up question would provide to the deficient bug report. Evaluation of our system, based on a manually annotated held-out data set, indicates improved performance over a set of simple and ablation baselines. A survey of software developers confirms the held-out set evaluation result that about half of the selected follow-up questions are considered valid. The survey also indicates that the valid follow-up questions are useful and can provide new information to a bug report most of the time, and are specific to a bug report some of the time.

Tue 18 May

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10:00 - 10:50
Developer communicationsTechnical Papers / Data Showcase at MSR Room 1
Chair(s): Hourieh Khalajzadeh Monash University, Australia
10:01
3m
Talk
Waiting around or job half-done? Sentiment in self-admitted technical debt
Technical Papers
Gianmarco Fucci University of Sannio, Nathan Cassee Eindhoven University of Technology, Fiorella Zampetti University of Sannio, Italy, Nicole Novielli University of Bari, Alexander Serebrenik Eindhoven University of Technology, Massimiliano Di Penta University of Sannio, Italy
Pre-print Media Attached
10:04
4m
Research paper
Automatically Selecting Follow-up Questions for Deficient Bug Reports
Technical Papers
Mia Mohammad Imran Virginia Commonwealth University, Agnieszka Ciborowska Virginia Commonwealth University, Kostadin Damevski Virginia Commonwealth University
Pre-print
10:08
4m
Talk
Challenges in Developing Desktop Web Apps: a Study of Stack Overflow and GitHub
Technical Papers
Gian Luca Scoccia University of L'Aquila, Patrizio Migliarini DISIM, University of L'Aquila, Marco Autili University of L'Aquila, Italy
Pre-print
10:12
3m
Talk
Search4Code: Code Search Intent Classification Using Weak Supervision
Data Showcase
Nikitha Rao Microsoft Research, Chetan Bansal Microsoft Research, Joe Guan Microsoft
Pre-print
10:15
35m
Live Q&A
Discussions and Q&A
Technical Papers


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Tue 18 May 2021 10:00 - 10:50 at MSR Room 1 - Developer communications Chair(s): Hourieh Khalajzadeh
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