Thats a unique idea.You should consider the following idea to enhance your idea so that it would impact uniquely: Over the past decade, several research efforts have studied the quality of software systems by looking at post-release bugs. Hover, these studies do not account for bugs that remain dormant (i.e., introduced in a version of the software system, but are not found until much later) for years and across many versions. Such dormant bugs skew our under- standing of the software quality.   study dormant bugs against non-dormant bugs using data from 20 different open-source Apache foundation software systems.  find that 33% of the bugs introduced in a version are not reported till much later (i.e., they are reported in future versions as dormant bugs). Moreover,  find that 18.9% of the reported bugs in a version are not even introduced in that version (i.e., they are dormant bugs from prior versions). In short, the use of reported bugs to judge the quality of a specific version might be misleading. Exploring the fix process for dormant bugs,  find that they are fixed faster (median fix time of 5 days) than non- dormant bugs (median fix time of 8 days), and are fixed by more experienced developers (median commit counts of developers who fix dormant bug is 169% higher). Our results highlight that dormant bugs are different from non-dormant bugs in many perspectives and that future research in software quality should carefully study and consider dormant bugs.
['Tse-Hsun Chen', 'Meiyappan Nagappan', 'Emad Shihab', 'Ahmed E. Hassan']
I am writing a research paper on a idea An empirical study of dormant bugs
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