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Answering the requirements traceability questions

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Juha SavolainenAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings

Pages 444 - 445

https://doi.org/10.1145/3183440.3195049

Published: 27 May 2018 Publication History

Abstract

To understand requirements traceability in practice, we present a preliminary study of identifying questions from requirements repositories and examining their answering status. Investigating four open-source projects results in 733 requirements questions, among which 43% were answered successfully, 35% were answered unsuccessfully, and 22% were not answered at all. We evaluate the accuracy of using a state-of-the-art natural language processing tool to identify the requirements questions and illuminate automated ways to classify their answering status.

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Cepulis DNiu N(2018)Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506526(17-21)Online publication date: Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506526

Index Terms

Answering the requirements traceability questions
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
    2. Software verification and validation
      1. Process validation
        Traceability

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ICSE '18: Proceedings of the 40th International Conference on Software Engineering: Companion Proceeedings

May 2018

231 pages

ISBN:9781450356633

DOI:10.1145/3183440

Conference Chair:
Michel Chaudron
Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Ivica Crnkovic
Chalmers University of Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
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Marsha Chechik
University of Toronto, Canada
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Mark Harman
Facebook and University College London, United Kingdom

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Westland TNiu NJha RKapp DKebede T(2020)Relating the Empirical Foundations of Attack Generation and Vulnerability Discovery2020 IEEE 21st International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration for Data Science (IRI)10.1109/IRI49571.2020.00014(37-44)Online publication date: Aug-2020
https://doi.org/10.1109/IRI49571.2020.00014
Cepulis DNiu N(2018)Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study2018 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC)10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506526(17-21)Online publication date: Oct-2018
https://doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2018.8506526

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