Source code indexing for automated tracing

Authors:
Anas Mahmoud;Nan Niu
Affiliations:
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA;Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Requirements-to-source-code traceability employs information retrieval (IR) methods to automatically link requirements to the source code that implements them. A crucial step in this process is indexing, where partial and important information from the software artifacts is converted into a representation that is compatible with the underlying IR model. Source code demands special attention in the indexing process. In this paper, we investigate source code indexing for supporting automatic traceability. We introduce a feature diagram that captures the key components and their relationships in the domain of source code indexing. We then present an experiment to examine the features of the diagram and their dependencies. Results show that utilizing comments has a significant effect on traceability link generation, and stemming is required when comments are considered.