Abstract
This paper addresses the issues related to improving the overall quality of the dynamic candidate link generation for the requirements tracing process for Verification and Validation and Independent Verification and Validation analysts. The contribution of the paper is four-fold: We define goals for a tracing tool based on analyst responsibilities in the tracing process, we introduce several new measures for validating that the goals have been satisfied, we implement analyst feedback in the tracing process, and we present a prototype tool that we built, RETRO (REquirements TRacing On-target), to address these goals. We also present the results of a study used to assess RETRO's support of goals and goal elements that can be measured objectively.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 4-19 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jan 2006 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work is funded by NASA under grant NNG04GP67G. The authors thank Stephanie Ferguson, Ken McGill, and Marcus Fisher. They thank Mike Chapman and the Metrics Data Program. They thank the MODIS project for maintaining their Website that provides such useful data. They thank Ganapathy Chidambaram for his assistance on LSI. They also thank Sarah Howard and James Osborne, who worked on early versions of the software used for the evaluation. They would also like to thank Doug Oard for useful discussions about measurement in Information Retrieval. Last, but not least, they would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
Keywords
- Dynamic link generation
- Independent validation and verification (IV&V)
- Information retrieval
- LSI
- Precision
- Recall
- Requirements tracing
- TF-IDF
- Verification and validation (V&V)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software