Understanding how the requirements are implemented in source code

Proceedings - Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference, APSEC

Volumn 2003-January, Issue , 2003, Pages 68-77

  Zhao, Wei ^a   Zhang, Lu ^a   Liu, Yin ^a   Luo, Jing ^a   Sun, Jiasu ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Program comprehension; Software maintenance; Static analysis; Traceability

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MODELS; INFORMATION-RETRIEVAL TECHNOLOGY; INITIAL FUNCTIONS; PRECISION AND RECALL; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE AND EVOLUTION; TRACEABILITY;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 4544280311     PISSN: 15301362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/APSEC.2003.1254359     Document Type: Conference Paper

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