Bug Whispering: Towards Audio Bug Reporting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00785v1
• Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2025 10:26:17 GMT
• Title: Bug Whispering: Towards Audio Bug Reporting
• Authors: Elena Masserini, Daniela Micucci, Leonardo Mariani,
• Abstract summary: This paper explores the idea of allowing end-users to immediately report the problems that they experience by recording and submitting audio messages.<n>Audio recording is simple to implement and has the potential to increase the number of bug reports that development teams can gather.<n>However, audio bug reports exhibit specific characteristics that challenge existing techniques for reproducing bugs.
• Score: 4.9636276777583745
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Bug reporting is a key feature of mobile applications, as it enables developers to collect information about faults that escaped testing and thus affected end-users. This paper explores the idea of allowing end-users to immediately report the problems that they experience by recording and submitting audio messages. Audio recording is simple to implement and has the potential to increase the number of bug reports that development teams can gather, thus potentially improving the rate at which bugs are identified and fixed. However, audio bug reports exhibit specific characteristics that challenge existing techniques for reproducing bugs. This paper discusses these challenges based on a preliminary experiment, and motivates further research on the collection and analysis of audio-based bug reports

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