Assessing traceability of software engineering artifacts

Requirements Engineering

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 313-335

  Sundaram, Senthil Karthikeyan ^a   Hayes, Jane Huffman ^b   Dekhtyar, Alex ^c   Holbrook, E Ashlee ^d  

^a MICROSOFT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Lexmark Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated tracing; Candidate link generation; Requirements traceability; Secondary measures; Vocabulary base

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TRACING; CANDIDATE LINK GENERATION; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY; SECONDARY MEASURES; VOCABULARY BASE;

AUTOMATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; RISK ANALYSIS; VECTOR SPACES; VERIFICATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 77955849214     PISSN: 09473602     EISSN: 1432010X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00766-009-0096-6     Document Type: Article

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