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Computer Science ›› 2021, Vol. 48 ›› Issue (12): 140-148.doi: 10.11896/jsjkx.201100209

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Code Search Engine for Bug Localization

CHANG Jian-ming1,2,3, BO Li-li1,2,4, SUN Xiao-bing1,2,4   

  1. 1 School of Information Engineering,Yangzhou University,Yangzhou,Jiangsu 225127,China
    2 Jiangsu Engineering Research Center Knowledge Management and Intelligent Service,Yangzhou,Jiangsu 225127,China
    3 School of Software,Southeast University,Nanjing 211189,China
    4 State Key Lab. for Novel Software Technology,Nanjing University,Nanjing 210023,China
  • Received:2020-11-29 Revised:2021-04-09 Online:2021-12-15 Published:2021-11-26
  • About author:CHANG Jian-ming,born in 1998,postgraduate.His main research interests include bug localization and so on.
    BO Li-li,born in 1989,Ph.D,lecturer.Her main research interests include software testing,software security,etc.
  • Supported by:
    National Natural Science Foundation of China(61872312,61972335,62002309),Open Funds of State Key Laboratory for Novel Software Technology of Nanjing University(KFKT2020B15,KFKT2020B16),Yangzhou City-Yangzhou University Science and Technology Cooperation Fund Project(YZU201803),Yangzhou University Top-level Talents Support Program(2019),Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province(RJFW-053) and Jiangsu “333” Project and Yangzhou University Cross-disciplinary Project of Animal Science(yzuxk202015).

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Abstract: With the evolution and the increased complexity of software project,bug fixing is getting more difficult.During the bug fixing,developers need to spend a lot of time on bug localization and fixing.To evaluate this problem,this paper builds a bug-code database by integrating the bug reports and the corresponding evolution information,and analyzing the relationship between the code block and the bug report.Then,a code search engine is constructed for bug localization based on the bug-code database,which is used for recommending more comprehensive information about similar bug reports,bug related code files,and code blocks.The experiment results show that the proposed approach is more accurate to localize buggy files,and the localization can effectively reach code level.

Key words: Abstract syntax tree, Bug localization, Bug report, Code search

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