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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Traditional Information Retrieval in Crash Report Deduplication
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Campbell, J.C., Santos, E.A., Hindle, Abram
Organizations like Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple are flooded with thousands of automated crash reports per day. Although crash reports contain valuable information for debugging, there are often too many for developers to examine individually. Therefore, in industry, crash reports are often
automatically grouped together in buckets. Ubuntu's repository contains crashes from hundreds of software systems available with Ubuntu. A variety of crash report bucketing methods are evaluated using data collected by Ubuntu's Apport automated crash reporting system. The trade-off between precision and recall
retrieval techniques, that were not designed to be used with crash reports, outperform other techniques which are specifically designed for the task of crash bucketing at realistic industrial scales. This research indicates that automated crash bucketing still has a lot of room for improvement, especially