Will Johnny/Joanie Make a Good Software Engineer? Are Course Grades Showing the Whole Picture?

2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference

Holden

et al. 2011

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Abstract-Assisted requirements tracing is a process in which a human analyst validates candidate traces produced by an automated requirements tracing method or tool. The assisted requirements tracing process splits the difference between the commonly applied time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone manual tracing and the automated requirements tracing procedures that are a focal point of academic studies. In fact, in software assurance scenarios, assisted requirements tracing is the only way in which tracing can be at least partially automated. In this paper, we present the results of an extensive 12 month study of assisted tracing, conducted using three different tracing processes at two different sites. We describe the information collected about each study participant and their work on the tracing task, and apply statistical analysis to study which factors have the largest effect on the quality of the final trace.

Section: Threats To Validitymentioning

confidence: 99%

On human analyst performance in assisted requirements tracing: Statistical analysis

2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference

Holden

et al. 2011

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“…Our group reported on a number of Information Retrieval techniques used to generate candidate link lists [12,13]. For this study, we selected one method, vector space retrieval using tf-idf (term frequencyinverse document frequency) term weighting, completed with standard Rochio feedback processing method [3].…”

Section: Automated Tracing and Feedback Processingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Make the Most of Your Time: How Should the Analyst Work with Automated Traceability Tools?

Third International Workshop on Predictor Models in Software Engineering (PROMISE'07: ICSE Workshops 2007)

Hayes

Larsen

2007

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Several recent studies employed traditional information retrieval (IR) methods to assist in the mapping of elements of software engineering artifacts to each other. This activity is referred to as candidate link generation because the final say in determining the final mapping belongs to the human analyst. Feedback techniques that utilize information from the analyst (on whether the candidate links are correct or not) have been shown to improve the quality of the mappings. Yet the analyst is making an investment of time in providing the feedback. This leads to the question of whether or not guidance can be provided to the analyst on how to best utilize that time. This paper simulates a number of approaches an analyst might take to evaluating the same candidate link list, and discovers that more structured and organized approaches appear to save time/effort of the analyst.

Technique Integration for Requirements Assessment

15th IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE 2007)

Hayes

Sundaram

et al. 2007

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