Automatic prediction of bug fixing effort measured by code churn size
Ferdian Thung · 2016
During software maintenance, developers often receive many bug reports. Project managers often need to manage limited resources to resolve the many bugs that a project receives. To help project managers perform their job, past studies have proposed techniques that predict the amount of time that passes between a bug report being submitted and it being resolved. However, this time period might not be representative of the actual development effort, as developers might not work on the bug right away or all the time. In the open source development setting, developers are only volunteers and might not devote their full working hours to fix a bug in a particular open source project. In the industrial setting, developers might be asked to perform various tasks aside from fixing a particular bug.