Can information retrieval techniques effectively support traceability link recovery?

IEEE International Conference on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 307-316

  De Lucia, Andrea ^a   Fasano, Fausto ^a   Oliveto, Rocco ^a   Tortora, Genoveffa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Traceability link recovery

Indexed keywords

RECOVERY PROCESSES; SOFTWARE ARTEFACTS; TRACEABILITY LINKS;

COMPUTATION THEORY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33845411955     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICPC.2006.15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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