A Novel Deep-Learning-Based Bug Severity Classification Technique Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Random Forest with Boostingopen access
- Authors
- Kukkar, Ashima; Mohana, Rajni; Nayyar, Anand; Kim, Jeamin; Kang, Byeong-Gwon; Chilamkurti, Naveen
- Issue Date
- 1-Jul-2019
- Publisher
- Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
- Keywords
- software reliability; severity classification; deep learning; natural language processing; n-gram; convolutional neural network; random forest
- Citation
- Sensors, v.19, no.13
- Journal Title
- Sensors
- Volume
- 19
- Number
- 13
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/sch/handle/2021.sw.sch/4396
- DOI
- 10.3390/s19132964
- ISSN
- 1424-8220
1424-3210
- Abstract
- 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. This increased bug repository size introduces biases in the bug triage process. Therefore, it is necessary to classify the severity of a bug report to balance the bug triaging process. Previously, many machine learning models were proposed for automation of bug severity classification. The accuracy of these models is not up to the mark because they do not extract the important feature patterns for learning the classifier. This paper proposes a novel deep learning model for multiclass severity classification called Bug Severity classification to address these challenges by using a Convolutional Neural Network and Random forest with Boosting (BCR). This model directly learns the latent and highly representative features. Initially, the natural language techniques preprocess the bug report text, and then n-gram is used to extract the features. Further, the Convolutional Neural Network extracts the important feature patterns of respective severity classes. Lastly, the random forest with boosting classifies the multiple bug severity classes. The average accuracy of the proposed model is 96.34% on multiclass severity of five open source projects. The average F-measures of the proposed BCR and the existing approach were 96.43% and 84.24%, respectively, on binary class severity classification. The results prove that the proposed BCR approach enhances the performance of bug severity classification over the state-of-the-art techniques.
- Files in This Item
- There are no files associated with this item.
- Appears in
Collections - College of Engineering > Department of Information and Communication Engineering > 1. Journal Articles
Items in ScholarWorks are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.