通过挖掘关联规则探索代码修改和错误修复之间的关系

摘要

We explore the relationships between bug fixes and several kinds of source code changes to better understand how source code changes are interrelated,and how they correlate with bug fixes,and what kinds of source code changes imply higher causality of bugs and thereby necessitate bug fixing.We explore these topics by mining association rules from the source code change histories of various software projects,as such rules can suggest and predict likely future changes and guide programmers to locate bugs more easily among committed changes.%本文通过分析各种不同的软件项目中产生的源代码修改记录，探索代码修改和错误修复之间的关系来更好地理解代码修改之间的关联并挖掘它们之间的关联规则，从而得到代码修改和错误修复之间的因果关系，找出修复错误的方法以更好地降低代码修改所引起的错误。