How long did it take to fix bugs?

Submitted by msquire on Thu, 2011-04-14 15:46

Title	How long did it take to fix bugs?
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2006
Authors	Kim, S, Whitehead, Jr., JE
Secondary Title	Proceedings of the 2006 international workshop on Mining software repositories
Pagination	173–174
Publisher	ACM
Place Published	New York, NY, USA
ISBN Number	1-59593-397-2
Keywords	argouml, bug fixing, bugs, mining challenge, msr challenge, postgresql, quality, time
Abstract	The number of bugs (or fixes) is a common factor used to measure the quality of software and assist bug related analysis. For example, if software files have many bugs, they may be unstable. In comparison, the bug-fix time--the time to fix a bug after the bug was introduced--is neglected. We believe that the bug-fix time is an important factor for bug related analysis, such as measuring software quality. For example, if bugs in a file take a relatively long time to be fixed, the file may have some structural problems that make it difficult to make changes. In this report, we compute the bug-fix time of files in ArgoUML and PostgreSQL by identifying when bugs are introduced and when the bugs are fixed. This report includes bug-fix time statistics such as average bug-fix time, and distributions of bug-fix time. We also list the top 20 bug-fix time files of two projects.
URL	http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1137983.1138027
DOI	10.1145/1137983.1138027
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