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Concepts-Based Traceability: Using Experiments to Evaluate Traceability Techniques

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Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS 2009)

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Knowledge engineering brings direct benefits to software development through the cognitive mapping between user expectations and software solution, checking system consistency and requirements conformance. One of the potential benefits of knowledge representation could be the definition of a standard domain terminology to enforce artifacts traceability. This paper proposes a concepts-based approach to drive traceability by the integration of knowledge engineering activities into the Unified Process. This paper also presents an experiment and its replication to evaluate precision and effort variables from concepts-based traceability and conventional requirements-based traceability techniques.

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  1. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul - PUCRS, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    Rodrigo Perozzo Noll & Marcelo Blois Ribeiro

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  1. Department of Systems and informatics, Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication (INSTICC) and Instituto Politécnico de Setúbal (IPS), Rua do Vale de Chaves, Estefanilha, 2910-761, Setúbal, Portugal

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Noll, R.P., Blois Ribeiro, M. (2009). Concepts-Based Traceability: Using Experiments to Evaluate Traceability Techniques. In: Filipe, J., Cordeiro, J. (eds) Enterprise Information Systems. ICEIS 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 24. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01347-8_45

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