Sharif Digital Repository

GitHub issue reports provide developers with valuable information that is essential to the evolution of a software development project. Contributors can use these reports to perform software engineering tasks like submitting bugs and requesting features. In the initial versions of issue reports, there was no standard way of using them. As result, the quality of issue reports varied widely. To improve the quality of issue reports GitHub introduced issue report templates (IRTs). However, despite of effectiveness of this feature which was introduced in 2016, only nearly 5% of GitHub repositories (with more than 10 stars) utilize it. Although issue report templates have advantages, their...