Studying the fix-time for bugs in large open source projects
Lionel Marks, Ying Zou, Ahmed E. Hassan · 2011
Background: Bug fixing lies at the core of most software maintenance efforts. Most prior studies examine the effort needed to fix a bug (fix-effort). However, the effort needed to fix a bug may not correlate with the calendar time needed to fix it (fix-time). For example, the fix-time for bugs with low fix-effort may be long if they are considered to be of low priority.