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Main Authors: Marshall, Chad, Barovic, Andrew, Moin, Armin
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16343
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author Marshall, Chad
Barovic, Andrew
Moin, Armin
author_facet Marshall, Chad
Barovic, Andrew
Moin, Armin
contents We propose an automated approach to bug assignment to developers in large open-source software projects. This way, we assist human bug triagers who are in charge of finding the best developer with the right level of expertise in a particular area to be assigned to a newly reported issue. Our approach is based on the history of software development as documented in the issue tracking systems. We deploy BERTopic and techniques from TopicMiner. Our approach works based on the bug reports' features, such as the corresponding products and components, as well as their priority and severity levels. We sort developers based on their experience with specific combinations of new reports. The evaluation is performed using Top-k accuracy, and the results are compared with the reported results in prior work, namely TopicMiner MTM, BUGZIE, Bug triaging via deep Reinforcement Learning BT-RL, and LDA-SVM. The evaluation data come from various Eclipse and Mozilla projects, such as JDT, Firefox, and Thunderbird.
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spellingShingle Mining Software Repositories for Expert Recommendation
Marshall, Chad
Barovic, Andrew
Moin, Armin
Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
We propose an automated approach to bug assignment to developers in large open-source software projects. This way, we assist human bug triagers who are in charge of finding the best developer with the right level of expertise in a particular area to be assigned to a newly reported issue. Our approach is based on the history of software development as documented in the issue tracking systems. We deploy BERTopic and techniques from TopicMiner. Our approach works based on the bug reports' features, such as the corresponding products and components, as well as their priority and severity levels. We sort developers based on their experience with specific combinations of new reports. The evaluation is performed using Top-k accuracy, and the results are compared with the reported results in prior work, namely TopicMiner MTM, BUGZIE, Bug triaging via deep Reinforcement Learning BT-RL, and LDA-SVM. The evaluation data come from various Eclipse and Mozilla projects, such as JDT, Firefox, and Thunderbird.
title Mining Software Repositories for Expert Recommendation
topic Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.16343