Abstract
Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using software. However, it is difficult for non-technical users to write clear descriptions about the bug occurrence. Therefore, more and more users begin to record the screen for reporting bugs as it is easy to be created and contains detailed procedures triggering the bug. But it is still tedious and time-consuming for developers to reproduce the bug due to the length and unclear actions within the recording. To overcome these issues, we propose GIFdroid, a light-weight approach to automatically replay the execution trace from visual bug reports. GIFdroid adopts image processing techniques to extract the keyframes from the recording, map them to states in GUI Transitions Graph, and generate the execution trace of those states to trigger the bug. Our automated experiments and user study demonstrate its accuracy, efficiency, and usefulness of the approach.Github Link: https://github.com/sidongfeng/gifdroidVideo Link: https://youtu.be/5GIw1Hdr6CEAppendix Link: https://sites.google.com/view/gifdroid
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2022 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering |
| Subtitle of host publication | Companion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2022 |
| Editors | Matthew B. Dwyer |
| Place of Publication | New York NY USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 95-99 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781665495981 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781665495998 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2022 |
| Event | International Conference on Software Engineering 2022: Software Engineering in Society - Pittsburgh, United States of America Duration: 22 May 2022 → 27 May 2022 Conference number: 44th https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9793840/proceeding (Proceedings) https://conf.researchr.org/home/icse-2022 (Website) |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering |
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| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| ISSN (Print) | 0270-5257 |
Conference
| Conference | International Conference on Software Engineering 2022 |
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| Abbreviated title | ICSE-SEIS 2022 |
| Country/Territory | United States of America |
| City | Pittsburgh |
| Period | 22/05/22 → 27/05/22 |
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Keywords
- • Software and its engineering → Software testing and debugging.