Enhancing Model-based Fault Traceability by Using Similarity between Bug and Commit Information

Abstract

As software development technology evolves, the quality of software has increased. But software created through sophisticated technology is still defective. The developer will be aware of the defect through a bug report and the reported defect must be fixed as soon as possible for the software to function correctly. It is important to know which component of the program is related to the reported defect and should be fixed. However, even though the developer understands the developed software, the task of tracing faults is a time-consuming task and requires effort. Therefore, if there is a way for developers to support tracing faults, they could fix defects more quickly. Because fixing defects rapidly is a factor of software reliability, fault traceability is essential and an effective method is needed. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a model-based fault traceability enhancement technique by using bug report and commit information and verify the effectiveness of the proposed technique.