Towards Visualizing the Status of Bug Reports

This paper presents preliminary results towards visualizing comprehensive and useful visualizations for the status and the history of bug reports stored in bug repositories. The goal is to help maintainers to gain better and quick comprehension about archived bug reports. Three visualizations are proposed to model different information about bug reports via different views. The visualizations are simple and easy to understand and analyze. The proposed views show information about a group of bug reports or about a specific one. A preliminary tool has been implemented to automatically analyze bug reports and to generate the proposed visualizations. The tool is a web-based tool that supports user interactions. The tool has been applied on real datasets from Bugzilla to illustrate the proposed visualizations and show their usefulness.