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Record W2053107307 · doi:10.1109/tse.2013.2297712

Automatic Summarization of Bug Reports

2014· article· en· W2053107307 on OpenAlex

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueIEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsUniversity of the Fraser ValleyUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsAutomatic summarizationComputer scienceTask (project management)ConversationSoftware bugSoftwareQuality (philosophy)Natural language processingInformation retrievalData scienceWorld Wide WebSoftware engineeringProgramming language

Abstract

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Software developers access bug reports in a project's bug repository to help with a number of different tasks, including understanding how previous changes have been made and understanding multiple aspects of particular defects. A developer's interaction with existing bug reports often requires perusing a substantial amount of text. In this article, we investigate whether it is possible to summarize bug reports automatically so that developers can perform their tasks by consulting shorter summaries instead of entire bug reports. We investigated whether existing conversation-based automated summarizers are applicable to bug reports and found that the quality of generated summaries is similar to summaries produced for e-mail threads and other conversations. We also trained a summarizer on a bug report corpus. This summarizer produces summaries that are statistically better than summaries produced by existing conversation-based generators. To determine if automatically produced bug report summaries can help a developer with their work, we conducted a task-based evaluation that considered the use of summaries for bug report duplicate detection tasks. We found that summaries helped the study participants save time, that there was no evidence that accuracy degraded when summaries were used and that most participants preferred working with summaries to working with original bug reports.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.812
Threshold uncertainty score0.812

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.219
Teacher spread0.210 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it