Recovering traceability links in software artifact management systems using information retrieval methods

ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Impact analysis; Latent semantic indexing; Software artifact management; Traceability management

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTICS;

IMPACT ANALYSIS; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; SEMI-AUTOMATIC RECOVERY; SOFTWARE ARTIFACT MANAGEMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 34648836593     PISSN: 1049331X     EISSN: 15577392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1276933.1276934     Document Type: Article

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