Abstract
According to recent work, duplicate bug report entries in bug tracking
systems impact negatively on software mainte- nance and evolution
productivity due to, among other fac- tors, the increased time spent
on report analysis and vali- dation, what in some cases take over
20 minutes. Therefore, a considerable amount of time is lost mainly
with duplicate bug report analysis. In this sense, this work presents
a char- acterization study using data from bug trackers from private
and open source projects, in order to understand the possi- ble factors
that cause bug report duplication and its impact on software development.
This work also discusses bug report characteristics that could
help identifying duplicates.
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