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What Makes a Good Bug Report
This paper investigates the quality of bug reports from the perspective of developers by conducted a survey among developers and user of APACHE, ECLIPSE, and MOZILLA. Developers were asked to: 1. Complete a survey on important information in bug reports and the problems they faced with them and 2. Rate the quality of bug report from "very poor" to "very good". Reporters (people who create bug reports and are not assigned any) were asked to fill out a similar survey on important information in bug reports and what information have they provided in their bug reports.

The researchers looked for the relationships between which items the developers said were important in bug reports compared to the items reporters said were important. The researchers also looked at the relationship between which items reporters said were important compared which items reporters have previously provided in bug reports.

The survey results showed that the most widely used items across the projects surveyed are steps to reproduce, observed and expected behavior, stack traces, and test cases. Developers in two of the four projects also used screenshots while developers in the other two projects more often used code examples and stack traces.