John Regehr • 8/17/2020

Responsible and Effective Bugfinding

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The article critiques common unhelpful practices in bug tracking, such as closing valid bugs to improve metrics, dismissing bugs deemed unimportant, or mass-closing due to high volume. It argues for maintaining accurate bug counts and proposes tooling improvements like a 'low-priority but valid' status and ML-assisted deduplication to manage software issues more effectively.

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