Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs

Ryosuke Tsuchiya; Hironori Washizaki; Yoshiaki Fukazawa; Keishi Oshima; Ryota Mibe

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-19069-3_16

Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs

Ryosuke Tsuchiya^*, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Keishi Oshima, Ryota Mibe

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School of Fundamental Science and Engineering

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Abstract

Traceability links between requirements and source code can assist in software maintenance tasks. There are some automatic traceability recovery methods. Most of them are similarity-based methods recovering links by comparing representation similarity between requirements and code. They cannot work well if there are some links independent of the representation similarity. Herein to cover weakness of them and improve the accuracy of recovery, we propose a method that extends the similarity-based method using two techniques: a log-based traceability recovery method using the configuration management log and a link recommendation from user feedback. These techniques are independent of the representation similarity between requirements and code. As a result of applying our method to a large enterprise system, we successfully improved both recall and precision by more than a 20 percent point in comparison with singly applying the similarity-based method (recall: 60.2% to 80.4%, precision: 41.1% to 64.8%).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Proceedings
Editors	Jelena Zdravkovic, Paul Johannesson, Marite Kirikova
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	247-262
Number of pages	16
ISBN (Electronic)	9783319190686
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19069-3_16
Publication status	Published - 2015
Event	27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2015 - Stockholm, Sweden Duration: 2015 Jun 8 → 2015 Jun 12

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	9097
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Other

Other	27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2015
Country/Territory	Sweden
City	Stockholm
Period	15/6/8 → 15/6/12

Keywords

Configuration management log
Interactive method
Traceability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Computer Science(all)

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Tsuchiya, R., Washizaki, H., Fukazawa, Y., Oshima, K., & Mibe, R. (2015). Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs. In J. Zdravkovic, P. Johannesson, & M. Kirikova (Eds.), Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Proceedings (pp. 247-262). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9097). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19069-3_16

Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs. / Tsuchiya, Ryosuke; Washizaki, Hironori ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki et al.
Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Proceedings. ed. / Jelena Zdravkovic; Paul Johannesson; Marite Kirikova. Springer Verlag, 2015. p. 247-262 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 9097).

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Tsuchiya, R, Washizaki, H , Fukazawa, Y, Oshima, K & Mibe, R 2015, Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs. in J Zdravkovic, P Johannesson & M Kirikova (eds), Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 9097, Springer Verlag, pp. 247-262, 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2015, Stockholm, Sweden, 15/6/8. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19069-3_16

Tsuchiya R, Washizaki H , Fukazawa Y, Oshima K, Mibe R. Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs. In Zdravkovic J, Johannesson P, Kirikova M, editors, Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Proceedings. Springer Verlag. 2015. p. 247-262. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-19069-3_16

Tsuchiya, Ryosuke ; Washizaki, Hironori ; Fukazawa, Yoshiaki et al. / Interactive recovery of requirements traceability links using user feedback and configuration management logs. Advanced Information Systems Engineering - 27th International Conference, CAiSE 2015, Proceedings. editor / Jelena Zdravkovic ; Paul Johannesson ; Marite Kirikova. Springer Verlag, 2015. pp. 247-262 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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