Constructing Bug Knowledge Graph as a Service for Bug Search

Abstract

When encountering bug issues, developers tend to search the bug repository and commit repository for references. However, the links between bug reports and commits in version control systems are often missed, and the information in bug repository and commit repository can provide is simple. When developers search a bug issue, they can only get the information of bug reports or commits, which are loose and difficult for developers to refer. What’s more, many searching results are not accurate. To deal with these problems, this paper proposes an approach to deal with the bug and commit information with the topic model, and construct bug knowledge graph as a service to assist in bug search. In addition, as the amount of bug related information continuously increase, it is time-consuming to update the data. We can automatically update the bug knowledge graph with the LTM topic model (a lifelong topic model). Finally, the experiment with the bug reports from Bugzilla@Mozilla and the corresponding commits from Github was conducted. The experiment results show that our approach is effective and efficient to help developers search relevant bugs for reference by constructing the bug knowledge as a service.