Evolving Software Trace Links between Requirements and Source Code

Maintaining trace links in response to continuous changes occurring in software systems is arduous. In this paper, we present a Trace Link Evolver (TLE) to automatically evolve source-to-requirement trace links according to underlying changes in the system. TLE depends on a set of heuristics coupled...

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Published in2019 IEEE/ACM 10th International Symposium on Software and Systems Traceability (SST) p. 12
Main Authors Rahimi, Mona, Cleland-Huang, Jane
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.05.2019
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Computer science
Evolution
Hazards
Heuristic algorithms
Information retrieval
Maintenance
Software systems
Traceability
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Summary:Maintaining trace links in response to continuous changes occurring in software systems is arduous. In this paper, we present a Trace Link Evolver (TLE) to automatically evolve source-to-requirement trace links according to underlying changes in the system. TLE depends on a set of heuristics coupled with refactoring detection tools and information retrieval algorithms to detect predefined change scenarios that occur across contiguous versions of a software system. Our evaluations show that considering both structural and semantic changes leads to more accurate trace link evolution.
ISSN:2157-2194
DOI:10.1109/SST.2019.00012