Relating requirements to implementation via topic analysis: Do topics extracted from requirements make sense to managers and developers?

IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, ICSM

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 243-252

  Hindle, Abram ^a   Bird, Christian ^b   Zimmermann, Thomas ^b   Nagappan, Nachiappan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA); requirements; requirements engineering; topics; traceability; version control

Indexed keywords

LATENT DIRICHLET ALLOCATIONS; REQUIREMENTS; TOPICS; TRACEABILITY; VERSION CONTROL;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; MANAGERS; PRODUCT DESIGN; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84873141511     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSM.2012.6405278     Document Type: Conference Paper

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