Automated requirements traceability: The study of human analysts

Proceedings of the 2010 18th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 231-240

  Cuddeback, David ^a   Dekhtyar, Alex ^a   Hayes, Jane Huffman ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Information retrieval; Requirements; Traceability

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; CHANGE IMPACT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORTS; ERROR PRONES; FORMATTERS; JAVA CODES; REGRESSION TESTING; REQUIREMENTS; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY; REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY MATRIX; SAFETY CRITICAL SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; TRACEABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE; REVERSE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING; VERIFICATION;

REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

EID: 78650376710     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2010.35     Document Type: Conference Paper

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