BugMaps: A Tool for the Visual Exploration and Analysis of Bugs

Andre Hora (1) , Nicolas Anquetil (1) , Stéphane Ducasse (1) , Muhammad Usman Bhatti (1) , Cesar Couto (2) , Marco Tulio Valente (2) , Julio Martins (2)

1 RMOD - Analyses and Languages Constructs for Object-Oriented Application Evolution
2 DCC - UFMG - Departamento de Ciência da Computação [Minas Gerais]

To harness the complexity of big legacy software, software engineering tools need more and more information on these systems. This information may come from analysis of the source code, study of execution traces, computing of metrics, etc. One source of information received less attention than source code: the bugs on the system. Little is known about the evolutionary behavior, lifetime, distribution, and stability of bugs. In this paper, we propose to consider bugs as first class entities and a useful source of information that can answer such topics. Such analysis is inherently complex, because bugs are intangible, invisible, and difficult to be traced. Therefore, our tool extracts information about bugs from bug tracking systems, link this information to other software artifacts, and explore interactive visualizations of bugs that we call bug maps.

Mots clés: moose lse-pub raweb2012

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]

Andre Hora, Nicolas Anquetil, Stéphane Ducasse, Muhammad Usman Bhatti, Cesar Couto, et al.. BugMaps: A Tool for the Visual Exploration and Analysis of Bugs. Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR'12) - Tool Demonstration Track, Mar 2012, Szeged, Hungary. ⟨hal-00668397⟩