ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Adams re-trace: traceability link recovery via latent semantic indexing
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Assessing IR-based traceability recovery tools through controlled experiments
Empirical Software Engineering
Combining textual and structural analysis of software artifacts for traceability link recovery
TEFSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering
Trace retrieval for evolving artifacts
TEFSE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 ICSE Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering
ASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Incremental Latent Semantic Indexing for Automatic Traceability Link Evolution Management
ASE '08 Proceedings of the 2008 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
A comprehensive characterization of NLP techniques for identifying equivalent requirements
Proceedings of the 2010 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
A comparative evaluation of two user feedback techniques for requirements trace retrieval
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Evaluating the specificity of text retrieval queries to support software engineering tasks
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
Automatic query performance assessment during the retrieval of software artifacts
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Information and Software Technology
Automatic query reformulations for text retrieval in software engineering
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Query quality prediction and reformulation for source code search: the refoqus tool
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Query quality prediction and reformulation for source code search: the refoqus tool
Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Software Engineering
Enhancing software artefact traceability recovery processes with link count information
Information and Software Technology
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Several authors apply Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to recover traceability links between software artefacts. Recently, the use of user feedbacks (in terms of classification of retrieval links as correct or false positives) has been proposed to improve the retrieval performances of these techniques. In this paper we present a critical analysis of using feedbacks within an incremental traceability recovery process. In particular, we analyse the trade-off between the improvement of the performances and the link classification effort required to train the IR-based traceability recovery tool. We also present the results achieved in case studies and show that even though the retrieval performances generally improve with the use of feedbacks, IR-based approaches are still far from solving the problem of recovering all correct links with a low classification effort.