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Plausible and adaptive requirement traceability structures

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Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering and knowledge engineering table of contents

Ischia, Italy

SESSION: Requirements engineering table of contents

Pages: 135 - 142

Year of Publication: 2002

ISBN:1-58113-556-4

Author

George Spanoudakis

City University, Northampton Square, London, UK

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

This paper presents an extension of a traceability system which automates the generation of traceability relations between textual requirement artefacts and object models using heuristic traceability rules. These rules match syntactically related terms in the textual parts of the requirements artefacts with related elements in an object model (e.g. classes, attributes, operations) and create traceability relations of different types when a match is found. The extension described in this paper measures beliefs in: (1) the ability of specific traceability rules to generate correct traceability relations, (2) the satisfiability of traceability rules by particular types of artefacts, and (3) the correctness of individual traceability relations. It also provides a mechanism with well-founded semantics for revising these beliefs on the basis of partial (and even conflicting) assessments of the relations that these rules generate provided by different users.

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