TY - GEN
T1 - Proximity-based traceability
T2 - 1st International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering, EmpiRE 2011, Co-located with Requirements Engineering, RE 2011
AU - Kong, Wei Keat
AU - Hayes, Jane Huffman
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - The automatic generation of traceability links attempts to reduce the burden of building requirements traceability matrices (RTMs) that will be vetted by a human analyst before use in verification and validation tasks such as criticality assessment or change impact analysis. Information Retrieval (IR) techniques, notably the Vector Space Model (VSM), have been used with some success to build textual artifact traceability matrices. A limitation of the VSM is that it disregards word or term location and the relationship between words in the textual artifacts being traced. This paper presents a VSM enhancement with consideration for term location, validating it on four datasets using ranked retrieval and set-based measures. These two types of measures provide a more detailed comparison between the two traceability techniques.
AB - The automatic generation of traceability links attempts to reduce the burden of building requirements traceability matrices (RTMs) that will be vetted by a human analyst before use in verification and validation tasks such as criticality assessment or change impact analysis. Information Retrieval (IR) techniques, notably the Vector Space Model (VSM), have been used with some success to build textual artifact traceability matrices. A limitation of the VSM is that it disregards word or term location and the relationship between words in the textual artifacts being traced. This paper presents a VSM enhancement with consideration for term location, validating it on four datasets using ranked retrieval and set-based measures. These two types of measures provide a more detailed comparison between the two traceability techniques.
KW - Dynamic link generation
KW - Empirical validation
KW - Information retrieval
KW - Measures
KW - Requirements tracing
KW - TF-IDF
KW - Term proximity
KW - Verification and Validation
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U2 - 10.1109/EmpiRE.2011.6046255
DO - 10.1109/EmpiRE.2011.6046255
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:80455149893
SN - 9781457710766
T3 - Proceedings - 1st International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering, EmpiRE 2011
SP - 45
EP - 52
BT - Proceedings - 1st International Workshop on Empirical Requirements Engineering, EmpiRE 2011
Y2 - 30 August 2011 through 30 August 2011
ER -