AI-Powered Bug Detection System
1. Problem Statement
Software projects contain bugs (errors, vulnerabilities, security risks). Detecting them early saves
time, cost, and effort. Traditional debugging is manual, but AI/ML can automate bug detection from
code, commits, or logs.
2. Research Part (Paper Content)
• Static Analysis → AI scans source code for syntax & logical errors.
• Dynamic Analysis → AI detects bugs while the program runs (test cases, logs).
• ML in Bug Detection: Predicting defect-prone modules using code metrics, NLP for analyzing
commit messages/issue reports, Deep learning for detecting code smells or vulnerabilities.
• Case Studies: SonarQube, DeepCode (now Snyk Code), Facebook’s Sapienz.
3. Tech Stack
• Core: Python (Language), VS Code / PyCharm / Jupyter Notebook (IDE).
• Data Handling: pandas, numpy for datasets; matplotlib, seaborn for visualization.
• ML Models: scikit-learn (Logistic Regression, Random Forest, SVM, Naïve Bayes).
• NLP: nltk / spaCy for preprocessing; scikit-learn TF-IDF for feature extraction.
• Advanced: tensorflow / pytorch (deep learning), transformers (Hugging Face, CodeBERT).
• Deployment: Streamlit for simple UI, Flask for API integration.
4. Dataset Sources
• PROMISE Software Engineering Repository → bug prediction datasets.
• Bugzilla / JIRA issue tracker data → real bug reports.
• Kaggle: Software defect prediction datasets.
5. Demo Ideas
• Option 1 (Simple): Input commit message/bug report → Predict if it’s bug-related or not.
• Option 2 (Medium): Input source code file → Detect possible errors using ML.
• Option 3 (Advanced): Train a deep model (CodeBERT) to classify code snippets into buggy vs
clean.
6. Paper + Presentation Flow
• Abstract → Why bug detection matters.
• Introduction → Manual vs AI bug detection.
• Literature Review → Tools & methods (SonarQube, DeepCode).
• Methodology → Your ML/NLP approach.
• Dataset + Experiments → Describe dataset + preprocessing.
• Results → Accuracy, precision, recall.
• Applications → Industry usage (software companies, security).
• Future Work → AI-assisted debugging agents.
• Conclusion → Summary + your contribution.