Requirements traceability technologies and technology transfer decision support: A systematic review

Wang, Bangchao; Peng, Rong; Li, Yuanbang; Lai, Han; Wang, Zhuo

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2018.09.001

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“…Review and classification of existing research approaches for: integration and collaboration of the discipline-specific models, collaboration in multi-team systems and across organizations. semi-automatic methods to manual methods (Wang et al 2018). Automatic approaches employ a diverse range of techniques.…”

Section: Requirements Tracking and Change Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber-physical production systems: highlighting the benefits of a combined interdisciplinary modelling approach on the basis of an industrial case

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In the context of cross-disciplinary and cross-company cooperation, several challenges in developing manufacturing systems are revealed through industrial use cases. To tackle these challenges, two propositions are used in parallel. First, coupling technical models representing different content areas facilitates the detection of boundary crossing consequences, either by using a posteriori or a priori connection. Second, it is necessary to enrich these coupled technical models with team and organizational models as interventions focusing on the collaboration between individuals and teams within broader organizational conditions. Accordingly, a combined interdisciplinary approach is proposed. The feasibility and benefits of the approach is proven with an industrial use case. The use case shows that inconsistencies among teams can be identified by coupling engineering models and that an integrated organizational model can release the modelling process from communication barriers.

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Section: Requirements Tracking and Change Managementmentioning

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Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber-physical production systems: highlighting the benefits of a combined interdisciplinary modelling approach on the basis of an industrial case

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“…The criteria proposed in a previous work [27] are adopted to assess the quality of empirical studies, as shown in Tables 1 and 2. Table 1 Questions on quality assessment Table 2 Evidence levels to the questions defined in Table 1 Table 3 Evidence on the extent to which the nine sub-challenges have been solved According to the above-defined indices, the extent to which these challenges are met is evaluated.…”

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Survey on Challenges and Achievements in Context-Aware Requirement Modeling

Peng

Wang

2020

IEICE Trans. Inf. & Syst.

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A context-aware system always needs to adapt its behaviors according to context changes; therefore, modeling context-aware requirements is a complex task. With the increasing use of mobile computing, research on methods of modeling context-aware requirements have become increasingly important, and a large number of relevant studies have been conducted. However, no comprehensive analysis of the challenges and achievements has been performed. The methodology of systematic literature review was used in this survey, in which 68 reports were selected as primary studies. The challenges and methods to confront these challenges in context-aware requirement modeling are summarized. The main contributions of this work are: (1) four challenges and nine sub-challenges are identified; (2) eight kinds of methods in three categories are identified to address these challenges; (3) the extent to which these challenges have been solved is evaluated; and (4) directions for future research are elaborated.

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“…However, as software systems evolve over time, RT activities are always time-consuming, tedious, and fallible [8]. As described in our previous work, determining how to improve the automatic degree and efficiency of a consistent and effective tracing process is an important challenge for both academia and industry [9].…”

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“…To overcome this challenge, Information Retrieval (IR) techniques have been introduced and become the most popular techniques in the area of trace links generation [9]. A typical process of generating trace links by IR-based techniques for natural language artifacts, generally consists of the following steps: document preprocessing, candidate link generating, analyzing and refining [5].…”

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“…Besides, short-text, low quality text, and different expression preferences in different artifacts also negatively affect the performance of IR-based methods. To deal with all the problems, many strategies have been proposed to improve IR-based tracing methods [9,23]. In an empirical study [24], the statistically analysis result shows several widely used IRbased tracing methods, which include VSM, LSI, Jensen-Shannon (JS), are almost equivalent.…”

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Combining VSM and BTM to Improve Requirements Trace Links Generation

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Peng

Wang

et al. 2019

International Conferences on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering

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Trace links between software artifacts provide available traceability information and in-depth insights for different stakeholders. Unfortunately, establishing trace links is a fallible, tedious, and labor-intensive task. To alleviate these problems, many Information Retrieval (IR) methods, such as Vector Space Model (VSM), Latent Semantic Indexing (LSI) and their variants, have been proposed to establish trace links automatically. In recent years, short-text artifacts (or even lack of documentation) become a new trend as more and more software systems are developed abiding by agile methodologies. It makes the effects of traditional IR-based trace links generation methods even worse. In this paper, Biterm Topic Model (BTM), which is good at dealing with short text, is introduced to solve the problem. A hybrid method combining VSM and BTM is proposed to generate requirements trace links. The empirical experiments conducted on three real and frequently-used datasets indicate that the hybrid method can achieve better performance, and the results can reach the "acceptable level" directly.

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Requirements traceability technologies and technology transfer decision support: A systematic review

Cited by 33 publications

References 26 publications

Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber-physical production systems: highlighting the benefits of a combined interdisciplinary modelling approach on the basis of an industrial case

Interdisciplinary engineering of cyber-physical production systems: highlighting the benefits of a combined interdisciplinary modelling approach on the basis of an industrial case

Survey on Challenges and Achievements in Context-Aware Requirement Modeling

Combining VSM and BTM to Improve Requirements Trace Links Generation

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