%0 Conference Paper %1 paper:weis:2007 %A Weiss, Cathrin %A Premraj, Rahul %A Zimmermann, Thomas %A Zeller, Andreas %B Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories %D 2007 %E Gall, Harald %E Lanza, Michele %K 2007 bug eclipse fix %T How Long will it Take to Fix This Bug? %U http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/publications/files/weiss-msr-2007.pdf %X Predicting the time and effort for a software problem has long been a difficult task. We present an approach that automatically predicts the fixing effort, i.e., the person-hours spent on fixing an issue. Our technique leverages existing issue tracking systems: given a new issue report, we use the Lucene framework to search for similar, earlier reports and use their average time as a prediction. Our approach thus allows for early effort estimation, helping in assigning issues and scheduling stable releases. We evaluated our approach using effort data from the JBoss project. Given a sufficient number of issues reports, our automatic predictions are close to the actual effort; for issues that are bugs, we are off by only one hour, beating na¨ıve predictions by a factor of four.

@inproceedings{paper:weis:2007, abstract = {Predicting the time and effort for a software problem has long been a difficult task. We present an approach that automatically predicts the fixing effort, i.e., the person-hours spent on fixing an issue. Our technique leverages existing issue tracking systems: given a new issue report, we use the Lucene framework to search for similar, earlier reports and use their average time as a prediction. Our approach thus allows for early effort estimation, helping in assigning issues and scheduling stable releases. We evaluated our approach using effort data from the JBoss project. Given a sufficient number of issues reports, our automatic predictions are close to the actual effort; for issues that are bugs, we are off by only one hour, beating na¨ıve predictions by a factor of four.}, added-at = {2008-05-13T15:38:34.000+0200}, author = {Weiss, Cathrin and Premraj, Rahul and Zimmermann, Thomas and Zeller, Andreas}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/29bf587447d9e1a671be67c4cd5b2cc55/mschuber}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Mining Software Repositories}, editor = {Gall, Harald and Lanza, Michele}, interhash = {39209ef42252fa5dc6080f3cd89e627b}, intrahash = {9bf587447d9e1a671be67c4cd5b2cc55}, keywords = {2007 bug eclipse fix}, month = May, note = {predicting time and effort of fixing a bug based on evaluations with the eclipse bugzilla dataset}, timestamp = {2008-09-09T12:58:24.000+0200}, title = {How Long will it Take to Fix This Bug?}, url = {http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/publications/files/weiss-msr-2007.pdf}, year = 2007 }