REquirements TRacing On target (RETRO): Improving software maintenance through traceability recovery

Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 193-202

  Hayes, Jane Huffman ^a   Dekhtyar, Alex ^b   Sundaram, Senthil Karthikeyan ^a   Holbrook, E Ashlee ^a   Vadlamudi, Sravanthi ^a   April, Alain ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b Center of Excellence   (United States)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY MATRIX; REQUIREMENTS TRACING ON-TARGET;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 34548691468     PISSN: 16145046     EISSN: 16145054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11334-007-0024-1     Document Type: Article

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