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Reconstructing requirements coverage views from design and test using traceability recovery via LSI

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TEFSE '05: Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering

Pages 37 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/1107656.1107665

Published: 08 November 2005 Publication History

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Requirements coverage views can help validate that all requirements are implemented in the system. This is not a trivial process. In this paper we present a method for generating requirements coverage views. To do this, information needs to be gathered from multiple sources in the development process. A traceability model defines the development work products and links that are required to generate the coverage views. Retrieving this information is done by using Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI). The method is applied in a lab study, Pacman, of which the preliminary results are also presented in this paper.

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