Can LSI help reconstructing requirements traceability in design and test?

Proceedings of the European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 46-56

  Lormans, Marco ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; REENGINEERING; SEMANTICS;

DESIGN AND TESTS; DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDY; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; MULTIPLE-CASE STUDY; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 33846432554     PISSN: 15345351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CSMR.2006.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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