GIFdroid: An Automated Light-weight Tool for Replaying Visual Bug Reports

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...

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Vydáno v:2022 IEEE/ACM 44th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceedings (ICSE-Companion) s. 95 - 99
Hlavní autoři: Feng, Sidong, Chen, Chunyang
Médium: Konferenční příspěvek
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: IEEE 01.05.2022
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Shrnutí: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
DOI:10.1145/3510454.3516857