Everything about Software bug

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Software bugA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Cloud-based bug tracking software defects analysis using deep learningInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The art of debugging with GDB, DDD, and EclipseThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Bug characteristics in open source softwareCited 215 times
5. Go sideways: DebuggingA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: HeisenbugA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Bug characteristics in open source software

  Lin Tan, Chen Liu, Zhenmin Li · 2013 · Empirical Software Engineering · 215 citations

• Software Bug Prediction using Machine Learning Approach

  Awni Hammouri, Mustafa Hammad, Mohammad Alnabhan · 2018 · International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications · 94 citations

• Software bug prediction using weighted majority voting techniques

  Sammar Moustafa, Mustafa Y. ElNainay, Nagwa El Makky · 2018 · Alexandria Engineering Journal · 43 citations

• Bug propagation and debugging in asymmetric software structures

  Damien Challet, Andrea Lombardoni · 2004 · Physical Review E · 32 citations

• Software bug prediction using object-oriented metrics

  Dharmendra Lal Gupta, Kavita Saxena · 2017 · Sādhanā · 24 citations

• Hyperparameter Optimization for Software Bug Prediction Using Ensemble Learning

  Dimah Al-Fraihat, Yousef Sharrab, Abdel-Rahman Al-Ghuwairi · 2024 · IEEE Access · 21 citations

• Invalid bug reports complicate the software aging situation

  Xiaoxue Wu, Wei Zheng, Minchao Pu · 2020 · Software Quality Journal · 20 citations

• Deep learning-based software bug classification

  Jyoti Prakash Meher, Sourav Biswas, Rajib Mall · 2024 · Information and Software Technology · 19 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Cloud-based bug tracking software defects analysis using deep learning

  Tao Hai, Jincheng Zhou, Ning Li · 2022 · Journal of Cloud Computing · 19 citations

• Software Bug Prediction Using Reward-Based Weighted Majority Voting Ensemble Technique

  Rakesh Kumar, Amrita Chaturvedi · 2024 · IEEE Transactions on Reliability · 16 citations

• Classification and intuitionistic fuzzy set based software bug triaging techniques

  Rama Ranjan Panda, Naresh Kumar Nagwani · 2022 · Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences · 13 citations

• Bug, Fault, Error, or Weakness: Demystifying Software Security Vulnerabilities

  Irena Bojanova, Carlos Eduardo C. Galhardo · 2023 · IT Professional · 11 citations

• Learning Software Bug Reports: A Systematic Literature Review

  Guoming Long, Jingzhi Gong, Hui Fang · 2026 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 10 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The art of debugging with GDB, DDD, and EclipseNorman S. Matloff, Peter Salzman · 2008
• Managing the Year 2000 crisisJanet G. Butler, Anthony W. Mace · 1998

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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