Recovering documentation-to-source-code traceability links using latent semantic indexing

被引:352
作者
Marcus, A [1 ]
Maletic, JI [1 ]
机构
[1] Kent State Univ, Dept Comp Sci, Kent, OH 44242 USA
来源
25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, PROCEEDINGS | 2003年
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D O I
10.1109/ICSE.2003.1201194
中图分类号
TP31 [计算机软件];
学科分类号
081202 ; 0835 ;
摘要
An information retrieval technique, latent semantic indexing, is used to automatically identify traceability links from system documentation to program source code. The results of two experiments to identify links in existing software systems (i.e., the LEDA library, and Albergate) are presented. These results are compared with other similar type experimental results of traceability link identification using different types of information retrieval techniques. The method presented proves to give good results by comparison and additionally it is a low cost, highly flexible method to apply with regards to preprocessing and/or parsing of the source code and documentation.
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页码:125 / 135
页数:11
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