REquirements TRacing On target (RETRO): improving software maintenance through traceability recovery |
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| Authors: | Jane Huffman Hayes Alex Dekhtyar Senthil Karthikeyan Sundaram E Ashlee Holbrook Sravanthi Vadlamudi Alain April |
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| Affiliation: | (1) Computer Science Department, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA;(2) Center of Excellence in Traceability, Lexington, USA;(3) Department of Software Engineering Université du Québec, école de Technologie Supérieure, Montreal, Canada |
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| Abstract: | A number of important tasks in software maintenance require an up-to-date requirements traceability matrix (RTM): change impact
analysis, determination of test cases to execute for regression testing, etc. The generation and maintenance of RTMs are tedious
and error-prone, and they are hence often not done. In this paper, we present REquirements TRacing On-target (RETRO), a special-
purpose requirements tracing tool. We discuss how RETRO automates the generation of RTMs and present the results of a study
comparing manual RTM generation to RTM generation using RETRO. The study showed that RETRO found significantly more correct
links than manual tracing and took only one third of the time to do so.
Work performed while A. Dekhtyar was on the faculty at the University of Kentucky. |
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