Security Bug Conversations

This dataset will be released as part of the following publication.

Benjamin S. Meyers, Nuthan Munaiah, Andrew Meneely, and Emily Prud'hommeaux. Pragmatic Characteristics of Security Conversation: An Exploratory Linguistic Analysis. Forthcoming. Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE 2019). Montréal, QC, Canada.

Files:

security_bug_conversations.csv

The full dataset containing over 2.1 million comments posted by developers discussing bugs in the Chromium project. The dataset also includes the values we calculated for the five pragmatic features (described in Section 3 of the paper cited above).

CSV Fields:

Organizational:

Bug ID: Unique identifier of a bug discussion in the Chromium project. The URL https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id= may be used to access the bug online

Comment ID: Unique identifier of a comment in a bug discussion

Classification:

Is Security: Binary indicator of whether or not a comment is part of a bug that is about security

Natural Language:

Comment Text: The raw natural language text of the bug comment

Linguistic Metrics:

Min. Formality: Minimum of the formality of sentences in the bug comment

Max. Formality: Maximum of the formality of sentences in the bug comment

Max. Informativeness: Maximum of the informativeness of sentences in the bug comment

Max. Implicature: Maximum of the implicature of sentences in the bug comment

Min. Politeness: Minimum of the politeness of sentences in the bug comment

Max. Politeness: Maximum of the politeness of sentences in the bug comment

Number of Tokens

Number of Sentences

Has Doxastic Uncertainty: Binary indicator of presence of a sentence with doxastic uncertainty in the bug comment

Has Epistemic Uncertainty: Binary indicator of presence of a sentence with epistemic uncertainty in the bug comment

Has Conditional Uncertainty: Binary indicator of presence of a sentence with conditional uncertainty in the bug comment

Has Investigational Uncertainty: Binary indicator of presence of a sentence with investigational uncertainty in the bug comment

Has Uncertainty: Binary indicator of presence of a sentence with any uncertainty in the bug comment