Improving automated requirements trace retrieval: A study of term-based enhancement methods

Empirical Software Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 119-146

  Zou, Xuchang ^a   Settimi, Raffaella ^a   Cleland Huang, Jane ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Information retrieval models; Requirements management; Requirements traceability

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL MODELS; NEW PROJECTS; PROJECT CHARACTERISTICS; REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY; RETRIEVAL ALGORITHMS; THREE-TERM; TRACEABILITY LINKS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 77954756958     PISSN: 13823256     EISSN: 15737616     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10664-009-9114-z     Document Type: Article

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