An empirical study of bug report field reassignment

摘要: A bug report contains many fields, such as product, component, severity, priority, fixer, operating system (OS), platform, etc., which provide important information for the triaging and fixing process. It is to make sure that correct since previous studies showed wrong assignment of fields could increase time, even delay delivery software. In this paper, we perform an empirical study on field reassignments in open-source software projects. To better understand why are reassigned, manually collect 99 recent reports had their reassigned emailed reporters developers asking these got reassigned. Then, a large-scale 8 types 4 projects containing total 190,558 reports. particular, investigate 1) number whose get 2) difference time between those not 3) duration gets 4) 5) times 6) whether experience affect reassignment fields. We find large (approximately 80%) have require more be fixed than without reassignments.