An Empirical Study of Bugs in Software Build Systems

2013 13th International Conference on Quality Software Pub Date : 2013-07-29 DOI:10.1109/QSIC.2013.60

Xin Xia, Xiaozhen Zhou, D. Lo, Xiaoqiong Zhao

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Build system converts source code, libraries and other data into executable programs by orchestrating the execution of compilers and other tools. The whole building process is managed by a software build system, such as Make, Ant, CMake, Maven, Scons, and QMake. The reliability of software build systems would affect the reliability of the build process. In this paper, we perform an empirical study on bugs in software build systems. We analyze four software build systems, Ant, Maven, CMake and QMake, which are four typical and widely-used software build systems, and can be used to build Java, C, C++ systems. We investigate their bug database and code repositories, randomly sample a set of bug reports and their fixes (800 bugs reports totally, and 199, 250, 200, and 151 bug reports for Ant, Maven, CMake and QMake, respectively), and manually assign them into various categories. We find that 21.35% of the bugs belong to the external interface category, 18.23% of the bugs belong to the logic category, and 12.86% of the bugs belong to the configuration category. We also investigate the relationship between bug categories and bug severities.

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软件构建系统中bug的实证研究

编译系统通过编排编译器和其他工具的执行，将源代码、库和其他数据转换为可执行的程序。整个构建过程由软件构建系统管理，例如Make、Ant、CMake、Maven、Scons和QMake。软件构建系统的可靠性将影响构建过程的可靠性。在本文中，我们对软件构建系统中的bug进行了实证研究。本文分析了Ant、Maven、CMake和QMake四种软件构建系统，这是四种典型且应用广泛的软件构建系统，可用于构建Java、C、c++系统。我们调查了它们的bug数据库和代码库，随机抽取了一组bug报告和它们的修复(总共800个bug报告，Ant、Maven、CMake和QMake分别为199、250、200和151个bug报告)，并手动将它们分配到不同的类别中。我们发现21.35%的bug属于外部接口类，18.23%的bug属于逻辑类，12.86%的bug属于配置类。我们还研究了bug类别和bug严重程度之间的关系。

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