What makes a good bug report?

Nicolas Bettenburg, Sascha Just, Adrian Schröter, Cathrin Weiss, Rahul Premraj, Thomas Zimmermann

Abstract

In software development, bug reports provide crucial information to developers. However, these reports widely differ in their quality. We conducted a survey among developers and users of APACHE, ECLIPSE, and MOZILLA to find out what makes a good bug report.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Bettenburg-al:FSE08,
  author    = {Nicolas Bettenburg and
               Sascha Just and
               Adrian Schr{\"{o}}ter and
               Cathrin Weiss and
               Rahul Premraj and
               Thomas Zimmermann},
  title     = {What makes a good bug report?},
  booktitle = {FSE},
  pages     = {308--318},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2008},
}

What makes a good bug report?

Abstract

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