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What makes a good bug report?
Abstract
In software development, bug reports provide crucial information to developers. However, these reports widely differ in their quality. We conducted a survey among developers and users of APACHE, ECLIPSE, and MOZILLA to find out what makes a good bug report.
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- Authors
- Bettenburg, N., Just, S., Schröter, A., Weiss, C., Premraj, R., & Zimmermann, T.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of software engineering
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2008-11-09
- Pages
- 308-318
- OpenAlex
- W2160517961
- Cited by
- 617
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 21.25
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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