TY - GEN
T1 - Requirements tracing on target (RETRO) enhanced with an automated thesaurus builder
T2 - 2013 7th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, TEFSE 2013
AU - Pandanaboyana, Sandeep
AU - Sridharan, Shreeram
AU - Yannelli, Jesse
AU - Hayes, Jane Huffman
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Several techniques have been proposed to increase the performance of the tracing process, including use of a thesaurus. Some thesauri pre-exist and have been shown to improve the recall for some datasets. But the drawback is that they are manually generated by analysts based on study and analysis of the textual artifacts being traced. To alleviate that effort, we developed an application that accepts textual artifacts as input and generates a thesaurus dynamically, we call it Thesaurus Builder. We evaluated the performance of REquirements TRacing On target (RETRO) with a Thesaurus generated by Thesaurus Builder. We found that recall increased from 81.9% with no thesaurus to 87.18% when the dynamic thesaurus was used. We also found that Okapi weighting resulted in better recall and precision than TF-IDF weighting, but only precision was statistically significant.
AB - Several techniques have been proposed to increase the performance of the tracing process, including use of a thesaurus. Some thesauri pre-exist and have been shown to improve the recall for some datasets. But the drawback is that they are manually generated by analysts based on study and analysis of the textual artifacts being traced. To alleviate that effort, we developed an application that accepts textual artifacts as input and generates a thesaurus dynamically, we call it Thesaurus Builder. We evaluated the performance of REquirements TRacing On target (RETRO) with a Thesaurus generated by Thesaurus Builder. We found that recall increased from 81.9% with no thesaurus to 87.18% when the dynamic thesaurus was used. We also found that Okapi weighting resulted in better recall and precision than TF-IDF weighting, but only precision was statistically significant.
KW - Automated Thesaurus
KW - RETRO
KW - Traceability
KW - Ubiquitous Grand Challenge - Research Project 2
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U2 - 10.1109/TEFSE.2013.6620156
DO - 10.1109/TEFSE.2013.6620156
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84888630541
SN - 9781479904952
T3 - 2013 7th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, TEFSE 2013 - Proceedings
SP - 61
EP - 67
BT - 2013 7th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, TEFSE 2013 - Proceedings
Y2 - 19 May 2013 through 19 May 2013
ER -