Bug Reports for Desktop Software and Mobile Apps in GitHub: What's the Difference?
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Xiapu Luo; Tao Li; Tao Zhang; Jiachi Chen
- Source
- IEEE Software. 36:63-71
- Subject
- business.industry
Computer Applications
Computer science
Mobile apps
020207 software engineering
02 engineering and technology
Software maintenance
Task (project management)
World Wide Web
Software
Software bug
0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
Key (cryptography)
business
- Language
- ISSN
- 1937-4194
0740-7459
As the number of desktop software and mobile apps is rapidly increasing, resolving bugs is a key task. Developers often examine bug reports (BRs) in software repositories to get hints for fixing the bugs. The quality of BRs is important. Pieter Hooimeijer and Westley Weimer created a descriptive model for the lifetime of a BR.