IR-based traceability recovery as a plugin - an industrial case study

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Abstract

Large-scale software development is a complex undertaking and generates an ever-increasing amount of information. To be able to work efficiently under such circumstances, navigation in all available data needs support. Maintaining traceability links between software artefacts is one approach to structure the information space and support this challenge. Several researchers have proposed traceability recovery by applying IR methods, based on textual similarities between artefacts. Early studies have shown promising results, but no large-scale in vivo evaluations have been made. Currently, there is a trend among our industrial partners to collect artefacts in a specific new software engineering tool. Our goal is to develop an IR-based traceability recovery plugin to this tool. From this position, in the environment of possible future users, the usefulness of supported findability in a software engineering context could be explored with an industrial validity.
Original languageEnglish
Pages14-17
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - 2011
EventFourth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2011) - Koblenz, Germany
Duration: 2011 Aug 31 → …

Conference

ConferenceFourth BCS-IRSG Symposium on Future Directions in Information Access (FDIA 2011)
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityKoblenz
Period2011/08/31 → …

Subject classification (UKÄ)

  • Computer Science

Free keywords

  • software engineering
  • traceability
  • information retrieval
  • findability
  • IR evaluation

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