Learning from defect removals

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Title	Learning from defect removals
Publication Type	Conference Paper
Year of Publication	2009
Authors	Ayewah, N, Pugh, W
Secondary Title	2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories (MSR)2009 6th IEEE International Working Conference on Mining Software Repositories
Pagination	179 - 182
Publisher	IEEE
Place Published	Vancouver, BC, Canada
ISBN Number	978-1-4244-3493-0
Keywords	bug fixing, bugzilla, change management, cherry, cvs, eclipse, groovy, launching, source code, svn, text editor
Abstract	Recent research has tried to identify changes in source code repositories that fix bugs by linking these changes to reports in issue tracking systems. These changes have been traced back to the point in time when they were previously modified as a way of identifying bug introducing changes. But we observe that not all changes linked to bug tracking systems are fixing bugs; some are enhancing the code. Furthermore, not all fixes are applied at the point in the code where the bug was originally introduced. We flesh out these observations with a manual review of several software projects, and use this opportunity to see how many defects are in the scope of static analysis tools.
DOI	10.1109/MSR.2009.5069500
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