Clustering support for automated tracing

ASE'07 - 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Automated Software Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 244-253

  Duan, Chuan ^a   Cleland Huang, Jane ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aspects; automated traceability; cross cutting concerns; requirements clustering; traceability

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING METHODS; CROSS-CUTTING; DESIGN ELEMENTS; HUMAN ANALYSIS; OPTIMAL CLUSTERING; SIMILARITY SCORES; SOFTWARE ARTIFACTS; TEST CASE; TOPDOWN; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMIZATION; TRACE ELEMENTS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 55049106164     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1321631.1321668     Document Type: Conference Paper

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