Enhancing an artefact management system with traceability recovery features

Author

De Lucia, Andrea ; Fasano, Fausto ; Oliveto, Rocco ; Tortora, Genoveffa

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Matematica e Informatica, Univ. di Salerno, Fisciano, Italy

fYear

2004

fDate

11-14 Sept. 2004

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

315

Abstract

We present a traceability recovery method and tool based on latent semantic indexing (LSI) in the context of an artefact management system. The tool highlights the candidate links not identified yet by the software engineer and the links identified but missed by the tool, probably due to inconsistencies in the usage of domain terms in the traced software artefacts. We also present a case study of using the traceability recovery tool on software artefacts belonging to different categories of documents, including requirement, design, and testing documents, as well as code components.

Keywords

configuration management; program diagnostics; software management; software tools; system documentation; system recovery; artefact management system; code component; design document; latent semantic indexing; requirement document; testing document; traceability recovery method; traceability recovery tool; traced software artefact; Documentation; Human resource management; Indexing; Large scale integration; Maintenance engineering; Programming; Project management; Software maintenance; Software testing; Software tools;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Software Maintenance, 2004. Proceedings. 20th IEEE International Conference on

ISSN

1063-6773

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2213-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSM.2004.1357816

Filename

1357816