GIFdroid: An Automated Light-weight Tool for Replaying Visual Bug Reports

Sidong Feng, Chunyang Chen

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Abstract

Bug reports are vital for software maintenance that allow users to inform developers of the problems encountered while using software. However, it is difficult for non-technical users to write clear descriptions about the bug occurrence. Therefore, more and more users begin to record the screen for reporting bugs as it is easy to be created and contains detailed procedures triggering the bug. But it is still tedious and time-consuming for developers to reproduce the bug due to the length and unclear actions within the recording. To overcome these issues, we propose GIFdroid, a light-weight approach to automatically replay the execution trace from visual bug reports. GIFdroid adopts image processing techniques to extract the keyframes from the recording, map them to states in GUI Transitions Graph, and generate the execution trace of those states to trigger the bug. Our automated experiments and user study demonstrate its accuracy, efficiency, and usefulness of the approach.Github Link: https://github.com/sidongfeng/gifdroidVideo Link: https://youtu.be/5GIw1Hdr6CEAppendix Link: https://sites.google.com/view/gifdroid

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2022 ACM/IEEE 44th International Conference on Software Engineering
Subtitle of host publicationCompanion Proceedings, ICSE-Companion 2022
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages95-99
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781665495981
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion, ICSE-Companion 2022 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: 22 May 202227 May 2022

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference44th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion, ICSE-Companion 2022
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period22/05/2227/05/22

Keywords

  • • Software and its engineering → Software testing and debugging.

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