An industrial case study in reconstructing requirements views

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 727-760

  Lormans, Marco ^a   Van Deursen, Arie ^a   Gross, Hans Gerhard ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Requirements management; Requirements traceability reconstruction

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION THEORY; RESTORATION;

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; INDUSTRIAL CASE STUDIES; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL TECHNIQUES; LATENT SEMANTIC INDEXING; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY RECONSTRUCTION; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS; TEST CASES;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 56749156477     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-008-9078-4     Document Type: Article

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