US 2011/0219360 A1 · SOFTWARE DEBUGGING RECOMMENDATIONS

Abstract

Software debugging recommendation technique embodiments are presented that generally entails creating a database of characterized software bug descriptions and providing software debugging recommendations from the database in response to a query. This can employ a two-phased approach in the search for similar software bugs. The first is a search phase that takes a query as input and returns a ranked list of software bug descriptions that match the query. These bug descriptions can contain a mix of structured and unstructured data. The second phase is a related-information phase that uses the output of the first phase to retrieve a set of related recommendations such as for people, source files, functions and binaries.

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A computer-implemented process for creating a database of characterized software bug descriptions, comprising:

using a computer to perform the following process actions:
(a) inputting a software bug description which provides information about a previously resolved or yet to be resolved software bug occurring in a software program;
(b) employing a group of software-specific feature extractors designed for said software program, wherein each extractor recognizes and extracts a different feature from the software bug description whenever the feature exists therein;
(c) generating a typed document comprising the features extracted from the software bug description;
(d) transforming the typed document into a bag of words
(e) storing the bag of words in a database
(f) repeating actions (a)-(e) for a plurality of additional software bug descriptions associated with previously resolved or yet to be resolved software bugs, or both, that occurred in said software program;
and
(g) generating a full-text searchable index of the bags of words representing the first-input and additional software bug descriptions in the database.

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A computer-implemented process for providing software debugging recommendations, comprising:

using a computer to perform the following process actions:
inputting a software bug description query which provides information about a unresolved software bug occurring in a software program;
employing a group of software-specific feature extractors designed for said software program, wherein each extractor recognizes and extracts a different feature from the software bug description query whenever the feature exists therein;
generating a typed document comprising the features extracted from the software bug description query;
transforming the typed document into a bag of words;
searching an index associated with a database to identify one or more software bug descriptions deemed to be similar to a prescribed degree to the software bug description query, wherein each software bug description in the database comprises structured and unstructured data which provides information about a previously resolved or yet to be resolved software bug occurring in the software program associated with the software bug description query, and each of which has been transformed into a bag of words in the same manner as the software bug description query;
and
producing a list of the identified software bug descriptions in the database that are deemed to be similar to the prescribed degree to the software bug description query.

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A computer-implemented process for creating a database of characterized software bug descriptions and providing software debugging recommendations, comprising:

using a computer to perform the following process actions:
(a) inputting a software bug description comprising structured and unstructured data, which provides information about a previously resolved or yet to be resolved software bug occurring in a software program;
(b) employing a group of software-specific feature extractors designed for said software program, wherein each extractor recognizes and extracts a different feature from the software bug description whenever the feature exists therein;
(c) generating a typed document comprising the features extracted from the software bug description;
(d) transforming the typed document into a bag of words;
(e) storing the bag of words in a database;
(f) repeating actions (a)-(e) for a plurality of additional software bug descriptions associated with previously resolved or yet to be resolved software bugs that occurred in said software program;
(g) generating a full-text searchable index of the bags of words representing the first-input and additional software bug descriptions in the database;
(h) inputting contextually relevant information about each of the first-input and additional software bug descriptions;
and
(i) building a relationship model which relates the first-input and additional software bug descriptions to said contextually relevant information.

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