A SURVEY ON PREDICTION OF PRIORITY AND SEVERITY IN THE BUG REPORTS

Software engineering

Software usage has increased by leaps and bounds and it is being used in every sphere of human activity. Bugs in the software would make it ineffective or unstable. As per the statistics 57% of the bugs originate through human made errors. This in turn results in cost overruns, delayed timelines and higher maintenance costs. Detecting the bugs is very crucial at the initial phase as it affects both the quality and accuracy after its deployment. In order to report these kinds of bugs, a system termed “Bug Tracking System” (BTS) exists. While testing any software, BTS receives a huge number of bugs on a daily basis. If the triage (the one who uses his knowledge and experience to analyze and refine the reported bug) starts reading all the bugs then it is possible that many important bugs will remain untreated and it is also difficult for the triage to resolve the bugs within the available time and resources. Hence, Bug priority and severity is an inevitable process in the software maintenance. This paper emphasizes in necessitating a short and fleeting survey on numerous bug priority and severity techniques. We are reviewing and categorizing survey of 30 literature research works in the domain of bug priority severity.

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