Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence

정보과학기술연구소 (Institute of Information Science and Technology)
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Towards Effective Analysis and Tracking of Mozilla and Eclipse Defects using Machine Learning Models based on Bugs Data

  • Hassan, Zohaib (FSRA&IT Solutions Providing Organization Peshawar) ;
  • Iqbal, Naeem (FSRA&IT Solutions Providing Organization Peshawar) ;
  • Zaman, Abnash (Faculty of Bioinformatics Shaheed Benazeer Bhutto Women University Peshawar)
  • 발행 : 2021.06.01
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Analysis and Tracking of bug reports is a challenging field in software repositories mining. It is one of the fundamental ways to explores a large amount of data acquired from defect tracking systems to discover patterns and valuable knowledge about the process of bug triaging. Furthermore, bug data is publically accessible and available of the following systems, such as Bugzilla and JIRA. Moreover, with robust machine learning (ML) techniques, it is quite possible to process and analyze a massive amount of data for extracting underlying patterns, knowledge, and insights. Therefore, it is an interesting area to propose innovative and robust solutions to analyze and track bug reports originating from different open source projects, including Mozilla and Eclipse. This research study presents an ML-based classification model to analyze and track bug defects for enhancing software engineering management (SEM) processes. In this work, Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Naive Bayesian (NB) classifiers are implemented using open-source bug datasets, such as Mozilla and Eclipse. Furthermore, different evaluation measures are employed to analyze and evaluate the experimental results. Moreover, a comparative analysis is given to compare the experimental results of ANN with NB. The experimental results indicate that the ANN achieved high accuracy compared to the NB. The proposed research study will enhance SEM processes and contribute to the body of knowledge of the data mining field.

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