Abstract
Many existing warning prioritization techniques seek to reorder the static analysis warnings such that true positives are provided first. However, excessive amount of time is required therein to investigate and fix prioritized warnings because some are not actually true positives or are irrelevant to the code context and topic. In this paper, we propose a warning prioritization technique that reflects various latent topics from bug-related code blocks. Our main aim is to build a prioritization model that comprises separate warning priorities depending on the topic of the change sets to identify the number of true positive warnings. For the performance evaluation of the proposed model, we employ a performance metric called warning detection rate, widely used in many warning prioritization studies, and compare the proposed model with other competitive techniques. Additionally, the effectiveness of our model is verified via the application of our technique to eight industrial projects of a real global company.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1461-1479 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | Journal of Computer Science and Technology |
Volume | 35 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2020 Nov |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2020, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Keywords
- automated static analysis
- topic modeling
- warning prioritization
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Science Applications
- Computational Theory and Mathematics