A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOCUMENT CORRELATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRACEABILITY ANALYSIS

Anju G. Parvathy, Bintu G. Vasudevan, Rajesh Balakrishnan

2008

Abstract

One of the important aspects of software engineering is to ensure traceability across the development lifecycle. Traceability matrix is widely used to check for completeness and to aid impact analysis. We propose that this computation of traceability can be automated by looking at the correlation between the documents. This paper describes and compares four novel approaches for traceability computation based on text similarity, term structure and inter-document correlation algorithms. These algorithms base themselves on different information retrieval techniques for establishing document correlation. Observations from our experiments are also presented. The advantages and disadvantages of each of these approaches are discussed in detail. Various scenarios where these approaches would be applicable and the future course of action are also discussed.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

G. Parvathy A., G. Vasudevan B. and Balakrishnan R. (2008). A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOCUMENT CORRELATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRACEABILITY ANALYSIS . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 64-69. DOI: 10.5220/0001676100640069

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Anju G. Parvathy and Bintu G. Vasudevan and Rajesh Balakrishnan},
title={A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOCUMENT CORRELATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRACEABILITY ANALYSIS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={64-69},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001676100640069},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DOCUMENT CORRELATION TECHNIQUES FOR TRACEABILITY ANALYSIS
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - G. Parvathy A.
AU - G. Vasudevan B.
AU - Balakrishnan R.
PY - 2008
SP - 64
EP - 69
DO - 10.5220/0001676100640069