@article {14798, title = {Automatic Mining of Source Code Repositories to Improve Bug Finding Techniques}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering}, volume = {31}, year = {2005}, month = {2005///}, pages = {466 - 480}, abstract = {We describe a method to use the source code change history of a software project to drive and help to refine the search for bugs. Based on the data retrieved from the source code repository, we implement a static source code checker that searches for a commonly fixed bug and uses information automatically mined from the source code repository to refine its results. By applying our tool, we have identified a total of 178 warnings that are likely bugs in the Apache Web server source code and a total of 546 warnings that are likely bugs in Wine, an open-source implementation of the Windows API. We show that our technique is more effective than the same static analysis that does not use historical data from the source code repository.}, keywords = {configuration control, debugging aids., index terms- testing tools, version control}, isbn = {0098-5589}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TSE.2005.63}, author = {Williams, Chadd C and Hollingsworth, Jeffrey K} }