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- Title
Improving After-the-Fact Tracing and Mapping: Supporting Software Quality Predictions.
- Authors
Hayes, Jane Huffman; Dekhtyar, Alex; Sundaram, Senthil Karthikeyan
- Abstract
The article presents information on the requirements traceability matrix (RTM). The software engineering industry undertakes many activities that require generating and using mappings. Companies develop knowledge bases to capture corporate expertise and possibly proprietary information. Software developers build traceability matrices to demonstrate that their designs satisfy the requirements. The RTM, mapping elements of a high-level artifact such as requirements to elements of a low-level artifact such as design, forms the basis of good verification and validation. Software engineers can use the RTM to predict a software system's quality as it's being built, well before any code is written. However, despite the RTM's advantages, pits development process requires that analysts manually discover and vet links between artifact levels. Using the RTM to perform analyses such as traceability analysis and completeness analysis provides quantitative results that can be used to predict software quality. For example, traceability analysis measures the percentage of elements without parents. RTM development doesn't differ much from other processes involving information retrieval, such as Internet searching.
- Subjects
MATRICES (Mathematics); SOFTWARE engineering; INTERNET searching; INFORMATION retrieval; COMPUTER software development; QUALITY
- Publication
IEEE Software, 2005, Vol 22, Issue 6, p30
- ISSN
0740-7459
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1109/MS.2005.156