Burt: A Chatbot for Interactive Bug Reporting

Analyzing the impact of API changes on Android apps

“…To enhance software maintenance tasks, the acquisition of highquality bug reports and the automated identification of buggy code locations can significantly expedite bug understanding, reproduction, and resolution processes. The design of our research draws inspiration from successful results from the development of an interactive bug reporting system [28,29], as well as leveraging GUIs for automatically identifying buggy locations in source code [20],…”

“…Our research instantiated with designing an interactive BUg Re-porTing (BURT) system [28,29], which guides users while reporting bugs, assesses the quality of the bug report elements, provides feedback to the reporters, suggests graphical contents during reporting, and generates high-quality bug reports. The entire bugreporting system comprises three components: 2.1.1 Natural Language Parser (NL).…”

“…In this phase, we generate an execution model of the application using established research strategies [10,28,29]. We also extract actions, primitives, and objects [16] using prompt engineering.…”

“…In our research, we introduce BURT [28,29], an interactive bug system designed to produce high-quality bug reports. However, despite its capabilities, several challenges remain to be addressed.…”

“…The inadequacies of existing bug reporting systems are evident in their failure to bridge the lexical gap between end-users and developers [22,35]. Existing bug reporting systems (i) offer limited guidance on the contents and the presentation of those contents in bug reports and (ii) lack mechanisms to provide feedback to reporters regarding the correctness and completeness of the bug report information [28,29]. Consequently, due to the static nature of these bug-reporting interfaces, the responsibility of furnishing high-quality information falls on the shoulders of the reporters.…”