TITLE: An Automatically Created Novel Bug Dataset and its Validation in Bug Prediction 

ABSTRACT: Bugs are inescapable during software development due to frequent code
changes, tight deadlines, etc.; therefore, it is important to have tools to
find these errors. One way of performing bug identification is to analyze the
characteristics of buggy source code elements from the past and predict the
present ones based on the same characteristics, using e.g. machine learning
models. To support model building tasks, code elements and their
characteristics are collected in so-called bug datasets which serve as the
input for learning.
  We present the \emph{BugHunter Dataset}: a novel kind of automatically
constructed and freely available bug dataset containing code elements (files,
classes, methods) with a wide set of code metrics and bug information. Other
available bug datasets follow the traditional approach of gathering the
characteristics of all source code elements (buggy and non-buggy) at only one
or more pre-selected release versions of the code. Our approach, on the other
hand, captures the buggy and the fixed states of the same source code elements
from the narrowest timeframe we can identify for a bug's presence, regardless
of release versions. To show the usefulness of the new dataset, we built and
evaluated bug prediction models and achieved F-measure values over 0.74.
Bugs are inescapable during software development due to frequent code
changes, tight deadlines, etc.; therefore, it is important to have tools to
find these errors. One way of performing bug identification is to analyze the
characteristics of buggy source code elements from the past and predict the
present ones based on the same characteristics, using e.g. machine learning
models. To support model building tasks, code elements and their
characteristics are collected in so-called bug datasets which serve as the
input for learning.
  We present the \emph{BugHunter Dataset}: a novel kind of automatically
constructed and freely available bug dataset containing code elements (files,
classes, methods) with a wide set of code metrics and bug information. Other
available bug datasets follow the traditional approach of gathering the
characteristics of all source code elements (buggy and non-buggy) at only one
or more pre-selected release versions of the code. Our approach, on the other
hand, captures the buggy and the fixed states of the same source code elements
from the narrowest timeframe we can identify for a bug's presence, regardless
of release versions. To show the usefulness of the new dataset, we built and
evaluated bug prediction models and achieved F-measure values over 0.74.
An Automatically Created Novel Bug Dataset and its Validation in Bug Prediction
http://arxiv.org/abs/2006.10158v1