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  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,650 Views
19 Pages

11 December 2019

For software maintenance, bug reports provide useful information to developers because they can be used for various tasks such as debugging and understanding previous changes. However, as they are typically written in the form of conversations among...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,474 Views
19 Pages

8 June 2022

During the maintenance phase of software development, bug reports provide important information for software developers. Developers share information, discuss bugs, and fix associated bugs through bug reports; however, bug reports often include compl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,340 Views
13 Pages

25 April 2017

With the increasing number of bug reports coming into the open bug repository, it is impossible to triage bug reports manually by software managers. This paper proposes a novel approach called En-LDA (Entropy optimized Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
894 Views
31 Pages

10 November 2025

Bug reports in open-source projects are often incomplete or low in quality, which reduces maintenance efficiency. To address this issue, we propose AgentReport, a multi-agent pipeline based on large language models (LLMs). AgentReport integrates QLoR...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,175 Views
47 Pages

20 August 2025

As software systems continue to increase in complexity and scale, the number of reported bugs also grows. Bug reports are essential artifacts in software maintenance, supporting critical tasks such as detecting duplicate reports, predicting bug sever...

  • Article
  • Open Access
236 Views
26 Pages

26 November 2025

The advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened new possibilities for automating bug report generation in software engineering. However, a fundamental limitation remains: the generated reports often fail to maintain both consistent structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,614 Views
21 Pages

A Comparison of Summarization Methods for Duplicate Software Bug Reports

  • Samal Mukhtar,
  • Claudia Cahya Primadani,
  • Seonah Lee and
  • Pilsu Jung

15 August 2023

Bug reports vary in length, while some bug reports are lengthy, others are too brief to describe bugs in detail. In such a case, duplicate bug reports can serve as valuable resources for enriching bug descriptions. However, existing bug summarization...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,718 Views
28 Pages

Identify High-Impact Bug Reports by Combining the Data Reduction and Imbalanced Learning Strategies

  • Shikai Guo,
  • Miaomiao Wei,
  • Siwen Wang,
  • Rong Chen,
  • Chen Guo,
  • Hui Li and
  • Tingting Li

4 September 2019

As software systems become increasingly large, the logic becomes more complex, resulting in a large number of bug reports being submitted to the bug repository daily. Due to tight schedules and limited human resources, developers may not have enough...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,268 Views
16 Pages

13 July 2021

The severity of software bug reports plays an important role in maintaining software quality. Many approaches have been proposed to predict the severity of bug reports using textual information. In this research, we propose a deep learning framework...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,312 Views
29 Pages

30 January 2025

With the growing reliance on software, the frequency of software bugs has increased significantly. To address these issues, users or developers typically submit bug reports, which developers analyze and resolve. However, many submitted bug reports ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,938 Views
18 Pages

2 March 2021

With the use of increasingly complex software, software bugs are inevitable. Software developers rely on bug reports to identify and fix these issues. In this process, developers inspect suspected buggy source code files, relying heavily on a bug rep...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,168 Views
44 Pages

A Survey on Bug Deduplication and Triage Methods from Multiple Points of View

  • Cheng Qian,
  • Ming Zhang,
  • Yuanping Nie,
  • Shuaibing Lu and
  • Huayang Cao

29 July 2023

To address the issue of insufficient testing caused by the continuous reduction of software development cycles, many organizations maintain bug repositories and bug tracking systems to ensure real-time updates of bugs. However, each day, a large numb...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,281 Views
23 Pages

Bug localization is the process through which the buggy source code files are located regarding a certain bug report. Bug localization is an overwhelming and time-consuming process. Automating bug localization is the key to help developers and increa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
704 Views
22 Pages

RCEGen: A Generative Approach for Automated Root Cause Analysis Using Large Language Models (LLMs)

  • Rubel Hassan Mollik,
  • Arup Datta,
  • Anamul Haque Mollah and
  • Wajdi Aljedaani

7 November 2025

Root cause analysis (RCA) identifies the faults and vulnerabilities underlying software failures, informing better design and maintenance decisions. Earlier approaches typically framed RCA as a classification task, predicting coarse categories of roo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,261 Views
23 Pages

Two-Level Information-Retrieval-Based Model for Bug Localization Based on Bug Reports

  • Shatha Alsaedi,
  • Ahmed A. A. Gad-Elrab,
  • Amin Noaman and
  • Fathy Eassa

Software bugs are a noteworthy concern for developers and maintainers. When a failure is detected late, it costs more to be fixed. To repair the bug that caused the software failure, the location of the bug must first be known. The process of finding...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,755 Views
26 Pages

30 December 2021

Software bug report classification is a critical process to understand the nature, implications, and causes of software failures. Furthermore, classification enables a fast and appropriate reaction to software bugs. However, for large-scale projects,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,416 Views
32 Pages

Quantitative Quality Evaluation of Software Products by Considering Summary and Comments Entropy of a Reported Bug

  • Madhu Kumari,
  • Ananya Misra,
  • Sanjay Misra,
  • Luis Fernandez Sanz,
  • Robertas Damasevicius and
  • V.B. Singh

19 January 2019

A software bug is characterized by its attributes. Various prediction models have been developed using these attributes to enhance the quality of software products. The reporting of bugs leads to high irregular patterns. The repository size is also i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,688 Views
9 Pages

24 June 2011

The stink bug, Megacopta cribraria, has an obligate relationship with a bacterial endosymbiont which allows it to feed on legumes. The insect is a pest of soybeans in Asia and was first reported in the Western Hemisphere in October 2009 on kudzu vine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
10,682 Views
24 Pages

21 August 2023

Issue reports are valuable resources for the continuous maintenance and improvement of software. Managing issue reports requires a significant effort from developers. To address this problem, many researchers have proposed automated techniques for cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,523 Views
18 Pages

A Multi-Factor Approach for Selection of Developers to Fix Bugs in a Program

  • Shikai Guo,
  • Shifei Chen,
  • Siwen Wang,
  • Decheng Zhang,
  • Yaqing Liu,
  • Chen Guo,
  • Hui Li and
  • Tingting Li

13 August 2019

In a software tracking system, the bug assignment problem refers to the activities that developers perform during software maintenance to fix bugs. As many bugs are submitted on a daily basis, the number of developers required is quite large, and it...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,420 Views
42 Pages

Knowledge Bases and Representation Learning Towards Bug Triaging

  • Qi Wang,
  • Weihao Yan,
  • Yanlong Li,
  • Yizheng Ge,
  • Yiwei Liu,
  • Peng Yin and
  • Shuai Tan

A large number of bug reports are submitted by users and developers in bug-tracking system every day. It is time-consuming for software maintainers to assign bug reports to appropriate developers for fixing manually. Many bug-triaging methods have be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
8,267 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Deep-Learning-Based Bug Severity Classification Technique Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Random Forest with Boosting

  • Ashima Kukkar,
  • Rajni Mohana,
  • Anand Nayyar,
  • Jeamin Kim,
  • Byeong-Gwon Kang and
  • Naveen Chilamkurti

5 July 2019

The accurate severity classification of a bug report is an important aspect of bug fixing. The bug reports are submitted into the bug tracking system with high speed, and owing to this, bug repository size has been increasing at an enormous rate. Thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,766 Views
19 Pages

Automatic Bug Triaging via Deep Reinforcement Learning

  • Yong Liu,
  • Xuexin Qi,
  • Jiali Zhang,
  • Hui Li,
  • Xin Ge and
  • Jun Ai

31 March 2022

Software maintenance and evolution account for approximately 90% of the software development process (e.g., implementation, testing, and maintenance). Bug triaging refers to an activity where developers diagnose, fix, test, and document bug reports d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
11,833 Views
13 Pages

11 April 2011

The bed bug resurgence in North America, Europe, and Australia has elicited interest in investigating the causes of the widespread and increasing infestations and in developing more effective control strategies. In order to extend global perspectives...

  • Article
  • Open Access
986 Views
25 Pages

The increasing reliance on software in diverse domains has led to a surge in user-reported functional enhancements and unexpected bugs. In large-scale open-source projects like Eclipse and Mozilla, initial bug assignment frequently faces challenges,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,259 Views
21 Pages

10 January 2025

The rapid expansion of software applications has led to an increase in the frequency of bugs, which are typically reported through user-submitted bug reports. Developers prioritize these reports based on severity and project schedules. However, the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,701 Views
22 Pages

SevPredict: Exploring the Potential of Large Language Models in Software Maintenance

  • Muhammad Ali Arshad,
  • Adnan Riaz,
  • Rubia Fatima and
  • Affan Yasin

5 December 2024

The prioritization of bug reports based on severity is a crucial aspect of bug triaging, enabling a focus on more critical issues. Traditional methods for assessing bug severity range from manual inspection to the application of machine and deep lear...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,259 Views
8 Pages

25 September 2018

The brown marmorated stink bug, Halyomorpha halys (Stål), is an invasive species from Asia. This polyphagous, stink bug species has posed a serious production challenge in several crop species in the areas where established. The insect has spre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,434 Views
24 Pages

4 February 2025

Objective: The complexity of software systems, with their multifaceted functionalities and intricate source code structures, poses significant challenges for developers in identifying and resolving bugs. This study aims to address these challenges by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
764 Views
25 Pages

25 September 2025

Fuzzing deep learning (DL) libraries is essential for uncovering security vulnerabilities in AI systems. Existing approaches enhance large language models (LLMs) with external knowledge such as bug reports to improve the quality of generated seeds. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,357 Views
24 Pages

Classification of Bugs in Cloud Computing Applications Using Machine Learning Techniques

  • Nadia Tabassum,
  • Abdallah Namoun,
  • Tahir Alyas,
  • Ali Tufail,
  • Muhammad Taqi and
  • Ki-Hyung Kim

23 February 2023

In software development, the main problem is recognizing the security-oriented issues within the reported bugs due to their unacceptable failure rate to provide satisfactory reliability on customer and software datasets. The misclassification of bug...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,069 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2025

This study investigated individuals’ emotional responses to bed bugs and how these were influenced by sex, proximity, and educational intervention. Using a pre-post experimental design, participants (n = 157) completed emotional assessments bef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,265 Views
21 Pages

3 July 2020

Stink bugs of the superfamilies Coreoidea and Lygaeoidea establish gut symbioses with environmentally acquired bacteria of the genus Burkholderia sensu lato. In the genus Burkholderia, the stink bug-associated strains form a monophyletic clade, named...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,674 Views
9 Pages

Morphological and Molecular Identification of Lethocerus patruelis (Stål, 1854) (Hemiptera: Belostomatidae) Specimen Collected in Close Proximity to Humans in Southern Italy

  • Donato Antonio Raele,
  • Maria Grazia Cariglia,
  • Stefania Patrizia Grimaldi,
  • Antonella Carla Dinoi,
  • Ettore Franco and
  • Maria Assunta Cafiero

19 February 2025

The Belostomatidae is a family of aquatic Heteropteran insects that normally inhabit swamps of tropical, subtropical and temperate regions where they naturally feed on a large range of prey, mainly fish, amphibians and reptiles. However, these arthro...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
14,042 Views
19 Pages

Cimicids of Medical and Veterinary Importance

  • Fatima Zohra Hamlili,
  • Jean Michel Bérenger and
  • Philippe Parola

17 April 2023

Members of the Cimicidae family are significant pests for mammals and birds, and they have attracted medical and veterinary interest. A number of recent studies have investigated bed bugs, due to their dramatic resurgence all over the world. Indeed,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
9,140 Views
12 Pages

28 November 2013

Bed bug (Cimex lectularius L.) infestations are becoming increasingly common in low-income communities. Once they are introduced, elimination is very difficult. As part of the efforts to develop effective and safe bed bug management programs, we cond...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,410 Views
12 Pages

14 April 2022

The reference transcriptome for Cimex hemipterus (tropical bed bug) was assembled de novo in this study, and differential expression analysis was conducted between blood-fed and starved tropical bed bug. A total of 24,609 transcripts were assembled,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,772 Views
12 Pages

22 December 2020

Assassin bugs are venomous insects that prey on other arthropods. Their venom has lethal, paralytic, and liquifying effects when injected into prey, but the toxins responsible for these effects are unknown. To identify bioactive assassin bug toxins,...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,788 Views
10 Pages

Monitoring 2.0: Update on the Halyomorpha halys Invasion of Trentino

  • Robert Malek,
  • Livia Zapponi,
  • Anna Eriksson,
  • Marco Ciolli,
  • Valerio Mazzoni,
  • Gianfranco Anfora and
  • Clara Tattoni

“BugMap” is a citizen science mobile application that provides a platform for amateur and expert scientists to report sightings of two invasive insect pests, the tiger mosquito Aedes albopictus Skuse (Diptera: Culicidae) and the brown mar...

  • Correction
  • Open Access
1,286 Views
5 Pages

24 October 2022

Due to a minor programming mistake, the authors had to fix the bug and repeat all computational experiments reported in [...]

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,269 Views
11 Pages

Bed Bug (Cimex lectularius L.) Population Composition as Determined by Baited Traps

  • Elizabeth J. Schaafsma,
  • Samuel D. Hapke and
  • Michael G. Banfield

30 April 2012

Two established field populations of bed bugs were sampled using host-mimicking traps baited with a combination of CO2, heat and a synthetic kairomone. The proportion of first instar nymphs (between 52% and 78% of all captured insects) was significan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
605 Views
21 Pages

Feasibility of a Green Breast Surgery Protocol to Reduce Carbon Footprint of Care: BuGS Trial Interim Results

  • Gianluca Vanni,
  • Marco Materazzo,
  • Marco Pellicciaro,
  • Jonathan Caspi,
  • Giordana Di Mauro,
  • Federico Tacconi,
  • Denisa Eskiu,
  • Benedetto Longo,
  • Valerio Cervelli and
  • Massimiliano Berretta
  • + 2 authors

28 September 2025

Background/Objectives: Our objective was to evaluate the clinical feasibility and sustainability of an awake breast conserving surgery (BCS) protocol integrating opioid-free anesthesia, telemedicine, and environmental sustainability compared to stand...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,296 Views
11 Pages

Field Evaluation of Synthetic Components of the Sex Pheromone of the Tea Pest Helopeltis cinchonae Mann (Hemiptera: Miridae)

  • Fida Hussain Magsi,
  • David R. Hall,
  • Zongxiu Luo,
  • Xiangfei Meng,
  • Chunli Xiu,
  • Zhaoqun Li,
  • Lei Bian,
  • Nanxia Fu,
  • Jianlong Li and
  • Zongmao Chen
  • + 1 author

16 March 2025

Helopeltis cinchonae is an emerging pest of tea and causes severe damage to tea plantations in China. The female of H. cinchonae has been reported to produce a sex pheromone consisting of two components, hexyl (3R)-3-acetoxybutyrate and (5R)-1-acetox...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
7,790 Views
13 Pages

Diversity and Molecular Barcoding of Stink Bugs (Hemiptera: Pentatomidae) Associated with Macadamia in South Africa

  • Byron Sonnekus,
  • Bernard Slippers,
  • Brett P. Hurley,
  • Elizabeth Joubert,
  • Michael Stiller and
  • Gerda Fourie

30 June 2022

Stink bugs are major pests of macadamia in South Africa. Accurate identification and knowledge of species composition are important to inform management practices. The overall aims of this study were to identify stink bug species from macadamia orcha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Views
24 Pages

5 November 2025

Bug localization is a critical task in large-scale software maintenance, as it reduces exploration costs and enhances system reliability. However, existing approaches face limitations due to semantic mismatches between bug reports and source code, in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,619 Views
14 Pages

Isolation of Clonostachys rosea and Characterizing Its Entomopathogenic Activity against Dubas Bug (Ommatissus lybicus) Nymphs and Adults

  • Salem S. Al-Nabhani,
  • Elham Ahmed Kazerooni,
  • Suad Al-Raqmi,
  • Maryam Al-Hashmi,
  • Shah Hussain,
  • Rethinasamy Velazhahan and
  • Abdullah M. Al-Sadi

7 October 2024

The Dubas bug is a serious and widespread pest of date palms in several countries in the Middle East. Chemical pesticides are widely used for managing this pest; however, most pesticides fail due to the continuous development of pesticide resistance....

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,999 Views
18 Pages

17 August 2017

Crowdsourcing is an appealing and economic solution to software application testing because of its ability to reach a large international audience. Meanwhile, crowdsourced testing could have brought a lot of bug reports. Thus, in crowdsourced softwar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,148 Views
12 Pages

Behavioral Response of Leptoglossus zonatus (Heteroptera: Coreidae) to Stimuli Based on Colors and its Aggregation Pheromone

  • Sandra Lisbeth Franco-Archundia,
  • Agustín Jesús Gonzaga-Segura,
  • Alfredo Jiménez-Pérez and
  • Víctor Rogelio Castrejón-Gómez

26 July 2018

The leaf-footed bug Leptoglossus zonatus (Dallas) (Heteroptera: Coreidae) is an important pest in the Americas. However, no preference of colors, sexual behavior nor aggregation pheromone has been reported, which can be used for detection, monitoring...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,760 Views
14 Pages

By mining the dimensional sentiment and dimension weight of the Ping An Health App reviews, this paper explores the changing trend of the influence of dimensions on user satisfaction and provides suggestions for the Ping An Health App operators to im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,939 Views
13 Pages

Relationship between Dubas Bug (Ommatissus lybicus) Infestation and the Development of Fungal-Induced Leaf Spots in Date Palms (Phoenix dactylifera)

  • Salem S. Al-Nabhani,
  • Rethinasamy Velazhahan,
  • Shah Hussain,
  • Suad Al-Raqmi,
  • Maryam Al-Hashmi and
  • Abdullah M. Al-Sadi

14 March 2023

The dubas bug (Ommatissus lybicus) (Hemiptera: Tropiduchidae) is a serious pest in date palms in several date-producing countries, including Oman. Infestation results in a severe reduction in yield and a weakening of date palm growth. In addition, eg...

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