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ASE 2015

Fixing Recurring Crash Bugs via Analyzing Q&A Sites (T)

Qing Gao, Hansheng Zhang, Jie Wang, Yingfei Xiong, Lu Zhang, Hong Mei

DOI 10.1109/ase.2015.81dblp

Abstract

Recurring bugs are common in software systems, especially in client programs that depend on the same framework. Existing research uses human-written templates, and is limited to certain types of bugs. In this paper, we propose a fully automatic approach to fixing recurring crash bugs via analyzing Q&A sites. By extracting queries from crash traces and retrieving a list of Q&A pages, we analyze the pages and generate edit scripts. Then we apply these scripts to target source code and filter out the incorrect patches. The empirical results show that our approach is accurate in fixing real-world crash bugs, and can complement existing bug-fixing approaches.

BibTeX
@inproceedings{Gao-al:ASE15,
  author    = {Qing Gao and
               Hansheng Zhang and
               Jie Wang and
               Yingfei Xiong and
               Lu Zhang and
               Hong Mei},
  title     = {Fixing Recurring Crash Bugs via Analyzing {Q\&A} Sites {(T)}},
  booktitle = {ASE},
  pages     = {307--318},
  publisher = {{IEEE} Computer Society},
  year      = {2015},
}

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