Mea culpa: How developers fix their own simple bugs differently from other developers

In this work, we study how the authorship of code affects bug-fixing commits using the SStuBs dataset, a collection of single-statement bug fix changes in popular Java Maven projects. More specifically, we study the differences in characteristics between simple bug fixes by the original author — that is, the developer who submitted the bug-inducing commit — and by different developers (i.e., non-a...