Paper Info
Title
An Automatic Approach to Detect Traceability Links Using Fuzzy Logic
Abstract
Background: The Requirements Trace ability Matrix (RTM) is one of the most commonly used ways to represent requirements trace ability. Nevertheless, the difficulty of manually creating such a matrix motivates the investigation into alternatives to generate it automatically. Objective: This article presents one approach to automatically create the RTM based on fuzzy logic, called RTM-Fuzzy, which combines two other approaches, one based on functional requirements' entry data - called RTM-E - and the other based on natural language processing - called RTM-NLP. Method: To create the RTM based on fuzzy logic, the RTM-E and RTM-NLP approaches were used as entry data for the fuzzy system rules. Aimed at evaluating these approaches, an experimental study was conducted where the RTMs created automatically were compared to the reference RTM (oracle) created manually based on stakeholder knowledge. Results: On average the approaches matched the following results in relation to the reference RTM: RTM-E achieved 78% effectiveness, RTM-NLP 76% effectiveness and the RTM-Fuzzy 83% effectiveness. Conclusions: The results show that using fuzzy logic to combine and generate a new RTM offered an enhanced effectiveness for determining the requirement's dependencies and consequently the requirement's trace ability links.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1109/SBES.2013.11
Software Engineering
Keywords
Field
DocType
enhanced effectiveness,rtm-nlp approach,fuzzy logic,reference rtm,trace ability link,requirements trace ability,new rtm,automatic approach,functional requirement,detect traceability links,entry data,fuzzy system rule,software engineering,formal specification,natural language processing
Fuzzy electronics,Data mining,Functional requirement,Systems engineering,Computer science,Fuzzy logic,Traceability matrix,Oracle,Fuzzy control system,Traceability,Requirements traceability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-0-7695-5165-4
1
0.35
References 
Authors
11
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andre Di Thommazo120.72
Thiago Ribeiro211.03
Guilherme Olivatto321.39
Vera Werneck410014.94
Sandra Fabbri532.45