In software development, issue tracker systems are widely used to manage bug reports. In such a system, a bug report can be filed, diagnosed, assigned, and fixed. In the standard process, a bug can be resolved as \emph{fixed}, \emph{invalid}, \emph{duplicated} or \emph{won’t fix}. Although the above resolutions are well-defined and easy to understand, a bug report can end with a less known resolution, \emph{i.e.}, \emph{workaround}. Compared with other resolutions, the definition of workarounds is more ambiguous. Besides the problem that is reported in a bug report, the resolution of a workaround raises more questions. Some questions are important for users, especially those programmers who build their projects upon others (\emph{e.g.}, libraries). Although some early studies have been conducted to analyze API workarounds, many research questions on workarounds are still open. For example, which bugs are resolved as workarounds? Why is a bug report resolved as workarounds? What are the repairs of workarounds? In this experience paper, we conduct the first empirical study to explore the above research questions. In particular, we analyzed 221 real workarounds that were collected from Apache projects. Our results lead to ten findings and our answers to all the above questions. For example, we find that most bug reports are resolved as workarounds, because their problems arise across projects (38.01%) or reside in the environments (21.27%). Although the problems of some workarounds (37.56%) reside in the project where they are reported, they are difficult to be fixed fully and perfectly. Our findings are useful to understand workarounds and to improve software projects and issue trackers.
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10:20 - 11:20: LBR + DS Poster (1)Late Breaking Results / Doctoral Symposium at Koala Chair(s): Kevin LeeDeakin University | |||
10:20 - 10:25 Poster | Efficient Multiplex Symbolic Execution with Adaptive Search Strategy Late Breaking Results Tianqi ZhangNational University of Defense Technology, Yufeng ZhangCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Zhenbang ChenCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, PR China, Ziqi ShuaiNational University of Defense Technology, Ji WangNational University of Defense Technology | ||
10:25 - 10:30 Poster | Styx: A Data-Oriented Mutation Framework to Improve the Robustness of DNN Late Breaking Results Meixi LiuNational University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, Weijiang HongNational University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, Weiyu PanNational University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, Chendong FengCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China, Zhenbang ChenCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, PR China, Ji WangNational University of Defense Technology | ||
10:30 - 10:35 Poster | Synthesizing Smart Solving Strategy for Symbolic Execution Late Breaking Results Zehua ChenNational University of Defense Technology, Zhenbang ChenCollege of Computer, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, PR China, Ziqi ShuaiNational University of Defense Technology, Yufeng ZhangCollege of Information Science and Engineering, Hunan University, Weiyu PanNational University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China | ||
10:35 - 10:40 Poster | Privacy Assessment of Android Clipboard Late Breaking Results Zach Wei WangThe University of Adelaide, Ruoxi SunThe University of Adelaide, Jason Minhui XueThe University of Adelaide, Damith C. RanasingheThe University of Adelaide DOI | ||
10:40 - 10:45 Poster | The Symptom, Cause and Repair of Workaround Late Breaking Results Daohan SongShanghai Jiao Tong University, Hao ZhongShanghai Jiao Tong University, Li JiaShanghai Jiao Tong University | ||
10:45 - 10:50 Poster | Edge4Sys: A Device-Edge Collaborative Framework for MEC based Smart Systems Late Breaking Results Han GaoSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Yi XuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Xiao LiuSchool of Information Technology, Deakin University, Jia XuSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Tianxiang ChenSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Bowen ZhouSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University, Rui LiSchool of Information Technology, Deakin University, Xuejun LiSchool of Computer Science and Technology, Anhui University | ||
10:50 - 10:55 Poster | Towards Immersive Comprehension of Software Systems Using Augmented Reality - An Empirical Evaluation Late Breaking Results Rohit MehraAccenture Labs, India, Vibhu Saujanya SharmaAccenture Labs, Bangalore, India, Vikrant KaulgudAccenture Labs, India, Sanjay PodderAccenture, Adam P. BurdenAccenture | ||
10:55 - 11:00 Poster | Towards Programming and Verification for Activity-Oriented Smart Home Systems Late Breaking Results Xuansong LiSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Wei SongSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Xiangyu ZhangPurdue University, USA | ||
11:00 - 11:05 Talk | Towards Robust Production Machine Learning Systems: Managing Dataset Shift Doctoral Symposium Hala AbdelkaderApplied Artificial Intelligence Institute, Deakin University | ||
11:05 - 11:10 Talk | Using Defect Prediction to Improve the Bug Detection Capability of Search-Based Software Testing Doctoral Symposium Anjana PereraMonash University DOI Pre-print |