Intelligent stale bug detection and prioritization system

A non-transitory machine-readable medium including instructions that, when executed by a machine, cause the machine to perform operations for bug mitigation, the operations comprising:

• performing temporal decay analysis on a bug associated with a software application, the temporal decay analysis assesses developer activity on and lifecycle of the bug over time to identify that the bug has become stale;
• responsive to identifying the bug has become stale, performing cross-version similarity modeling to identify the bug has recurred in a current instance of the software application;
• and
• mitigating the bug responsive to determining the bug recurred in the current instance of the software application resulting in an updated software application.

A system comprising:

• a vector database storing bug identifications and corresponding features, the features including a title embedding, a description embedding, and a metadata vector for each of the bugs;
• a bug database storing the bug identifications and corresponding bug reports and cluster data for each of the bugs, the cluster data indicating a cluster of which the bug is a member;
• and
• processing circuitry configured to:
• perform temporal decay analysis on a bug of the bugs associated with an instance of a software application, the temporal decay analysis assesses developer activity on and lifecycle of the bug over time to identify that the bug has become stale;
• responsive to identifying the bug has become stale, flag the bug as stale in a bug database;
• responsive to identifying the bug has become stale, perform evolutionary relevance mapping on the bug to determine the bug is still relevant in a current instance of the software application;
• and
• mitigate the bug responsive to determining the bug is still relevant in the current instance of the software application resulting in an updated software application.