A comparative exploration of FreeBSD bug lifetimes

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Title	A comparative exploration of FreeBSD bug lifetimes
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2010
Authors	Bougie, G, Treude, C, German, DM, Storey, M-A
Secondary Title	2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)2010 7th IEEE Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR 2010)
Pagination	106 - 109
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Cape Town, South Africa
ISBN Number	978-1-4244-6802-7
Keywords	bug reports, bug tracking, classification, eclipse, msr challenge, prediction
Abstract	In this paper, we explore the viability of mining the basic data provided in bug repositories to predict bug lifetimes. We follow the method of Lucas D. Panjer as described in his paper, Predicting Eclipse Bug Lifetimes. However, in place of Eclipse data, the FreeBSD bug repository is used. We compare the predictive accuracy of five different classification algorithms applied to the two data sets. In addition, we propose future work on whether there is a more informative way of classifying bugs than is considered by current bug tracking systems.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2010.5463291
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