In a manual examination of more than 7,000 issue reports from the bug databases of five open-source projects, we found 33.8% of all issue reports to be misclassified, that is, …

Software reliability is heavily impacted by soft- ware changes. How do these changes relate to each other? By analyzing the impacted method definitions and usages, we determine dependencies between changes, …

Several defect prediction models have been proposed to identify which entities in a software system are likely to have defects before its release. This paper presents a replication of one …

Changing source code in large software systems is complex and requires a good understanding of dependencies between software components. Modification to components with little regard to dependencies may have an …