Towards a model of analyst effort for traceability research

Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Huffman Hayes, Matt Smith

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Abstract

This paper posits that a theoretical model of analyst effort in tracing tasks is necessary to assist with study of the analyst. Specifically, it is clear from prior work by numerous research groups that the important factors in such a model are: the amount of time it takes for an analyst to vet a given candidate link and the amount of time it takes an analyst to find a missing link. This paper introduces a theoretical model of analyst effort as well as a simplified model. A number of simulations were undertaken in order to build effort curves to assist in evaluating numerous tracing scenarios, such as determining at what point in time an analyst should switch from vetting candidate links to manually searching for links not in the candidate list.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTEFSE'11 - Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, Co-located with ICSE 2011
Pages58-62
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, TEFSE 2011, Co-located with the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'11 - Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: May 23 2011May 23 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Software Engineering
ISSN (Print)0270-5257

Conference

Conference6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, TEFSE 2011, Co-located with the 33rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE'11
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikiki, Honolulu, HI
Period5/23/115/23/11

Keywords

  • effort
  • false positives
  • study of the analyst
  • traceability
  • type I error
  • type II error

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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