Abstract
A number of important tasks in software maintenance require an up-to-date requirements traceability matrix (RTM): change impact analysis, determination of test cases to execute for regression testing, etc. The generation and maintenance of RTMs are tedious and error-prone, and they are hence often not done. In this paper, we present REquirements TRacing On-target (RETRO), a special- purpose requirements tracing tool. We discuss how RETRO automates the generation of RTMs and present the results of a study comparing manual RTM generation to RTM generation using RETRO. The study showed that RETRO found significantly more correct links than manual tracing and took only one third of the time to do so.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 193-202 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue number | 3 |
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| State | Published - Sep 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Acknowledgments This work is sponsored by NASA under grant NNG05GQ58G. Our thanks to Stephanie Ferguson, Marcus Fisher, Wes Deadrick, Ken McGill, and Tim Menzies. We thank the students of CS 617, Spring 2006. We thank Mike Chapman and the Metrics Data Program for access to the CM-1 dataset. We also thank Sarah Howard and James Osborne, who worked on early versions of the software used for the evaluation.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software