JIT_V5_N3_RP3 R. Nishanth Prabhakar K.S. Ranjith Journal on Information Technology 2277-5250 5 3 15 23 Bug, Triage, Knowledge, Feature Selection, Instance Selection Bug triage is the most important step in handling the bugs which occur during a software process. In manual bug triaging process the received bug is assigned to a tester or a developer by a triager, hence when the bugs are received in huge numbers it is difficult to carry out the manual bug triaging process, and it consumes much resources both in the form of man hours and economy, hence there is a necessity to reduce the exploitation of resources. Hence a mechanism is proposed which facilitates a much better and efficient triaging process by reducing the size of the bug data sets. The mechanism here involves techniques like clustering techniques and selection techniques. Their approach proved much efficient than the manual bug triaging process when compared with bug data sets which were retrieved from the open source bug repository called bugzilla. June - August 2016 Copyright © 2016 i-manager publications. All rights reserved. i-manager Publications http://www.imanagerpublications.com/Article.aspx?ArticleId=8137