Software artefact traceability: The never-ending challenge

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 485-488

  Oliveto, Rocco ^a   Antoniol, Giuliano ^b   Marcus, Andrian ^c   Hayes, Jane ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b ÉCOLE POLYTECHNIQUE DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c Wayne State University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Impact analysis; Information retrieval; Program comprehension; Requirement tracing; Software artefact traceability; Software maintenance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; MAINTAINABILITY; MAINTENANCE;

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; SEMI AUTOMATICS; SOFTWARE ARTEFACTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TIME CONSUMING; TRACEABILITY INFORMATION; WORKING SESSIONS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 47349096716     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2007.4362664     Document Type: Conference Paper

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