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Utilizing Supporting Evidence to Improve Dynamic Requirements Traceability
Paris, France August 29-September 02
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/RE.2005.7813th IEEE International Requirements ...
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Jane Cleland-Huang, DePaul University
Raffaella Settimi, DePaul University
Chuan Duan, DePaul University
Xuchang Zou, DePaul University

Requirements traceability provides critical support throughout all phases of a software development project. However practice has repeatedly shown the difficulties involved in long-term maintenance of traditional traceability matrices. Dynamic retrieval methods minimize the need for creating and maintaining explicit links and can significantly reduce the effort required to perform a manual trace. Unfortunately they suffer from recall and precision problems. This paper introduces three strategies for incorporating supporting information into a probabilistic retrieval algorithm in order to improve the performance of dynamic requirements traceability. The strategies include hierarchical modeling, logical clustering of artifacts, and semiautomated pruning of the probabilistic network. Experimental results indicate that enhancement strategies can be used effectively to improve trace retrieval results thereby increasing the practicality of utilizing dynamic trace retrieval methods.

Citation:
Jane Cleland-Huang, Raffaella Settimi, Chuan Duan, Xuchang Zou, "Utilizing Supporting Evidence to Improve Dynamic Requirements Traceability," re, pp.135-144, 13th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE'05), 2005
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