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Hauptverfasser: Nastos, Dimitrios-Nikitas, Diamantopoulos, Themistoklis, Tosi, Davide, Tropeano, Martina, Symeonidis, Andreas L.
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2025
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01108
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author Nastos, Dimitrios-Nikitas
Diamantopoulos, Themistoklis
Tosi, Davide
Tropeano, Martina
Symeonidis, Andreas L.
author_facet Nastos, Dimitrios-Nikitas
Diamantopoulos, Themistoklis
Tosi, Davide
Tropeano, Martina
Symeonidis, Andreas L.
contents Lately, software development has become a predominantly online process, as more teams host and monitor their projects remotely. Sophisticated approaches employ issue tracking systems like Jira, predicting the time required to resolve issues and effectively assigning and prioritizing project tasks. Several methods have been developed to address this challenge, widely known as bug-fix time prediction, yet they exhibit significant limitations. Most consider only textual issue data and/or use techniques that overlook the semantics and metadata of issues (e.g., priority or assignee expertise). Many also fail to distinguish actual development effort from administrative delays, including assignment and review phases, leading to estimates that do not reflect the true effort needed. In this work, we build an issue monitoring system that extracts the actual effort required to fix issues on a per-project basis. Our approach employs topic modeling to capture issue semantics and leverages metadata (components, labels, priority, issue type, assignees) for interpretable resolution time analysis. Final predictions are generated by an aggregated model, enabling contributors to make informed decisions. Evaluation across multiple projects shows the system can effectively estimate resolution time and provide valuable insights.
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spellingShingle Towards an Interpretable Analysis for Estimating the Resolution Time of Software Issues
Nastos, Dimitrios-Nikitas
Diamantopoulos, Themistoklis
Tosi, Davide
Tropeano, Martina
Symeonidis, Andreas L.
Software Engineering
Lately, software development has become a predominantly online process, as more teams host and monitor their projects remotely. Sophisticated approaches employ issue tracking systems like Jira, predicting the time required to resolve issues and effectively assigning and prioritizing project tasks. Several methods have been developed to address this challenge, widely known as bug-fix time prediction, yet they exhibit significant limitations. Most consider only textual issue data and/or use techniques that overlook the semantics and metadata of issues (e.g., priority or assignee expertise). Many also fail to distinguish actual development effort from administrative delays, including assignment and review phases, leading to estimates that do not reflect the true effort needed. In this work, we build an issue monitoring system that extracts the actual effort required to fix issues on a per-project basis. Our approach employs topic modeling to capture issue semantics and leverages metadata (components, labels, priority, issue type, assignees) for interpretable resolution time analysis. Final predictions are generated by an aggregated model, enabling contributors to make informed decisions. Evaluation across multiple projects shows the system can effectively estimate resolution time and provide valuable insights.
title Towards an Interpretable Analysis for Estimating the Resolution Time of Software Issues
topic Software Engineering
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.01108