Towards overcoming human analyst fallibility in the requirements tracing process (NIER track)

David Cuddeback, Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Huffman Hayes, Jeff Holden, Wei Keat Kong

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Abstract

Our research group recently discovered that human analysts, when asked to validate candidate traceability matrices, produce predictably imperfect results, in some cases less accurate than the starting candidate matrices. This discovery radically changes our understanding of how to design a fast, accurate and certifiable tracing process that can be implemented as part of software assurance activities. We present our vision for the new approach to achieving this goal. Further, we posit that human fallibility may impact other software engineering activities involving decision support tools.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICSE 2011 - 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, Proceedings of the Conference
Pages860-863
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Event33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011 - Waikiki, Honolulu, HI, United States
Duration: May 21 2011May 28 2011

Publication series

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

Conference

Conference33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWaikiki, Honolulu, HI
Period5/21/115/28/11

Keywords

  • accuracy
  • software assurance
  • tools
  • traceability
  • tracing
  • validation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software

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