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REquirements Tracing On target (RETRO): Improving Software Maintenance through Traceability Recovery
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@MISC{Hayes_requirementstracing,
author = {J. Huffman Hayes and A. Dekhtyar and Senthil Sundaram and Ashlee Holbrook and S. Vadlamudi and Alain April},
title = { REquirements Tracing On target (RETRO): Improving Software Maintenance through Traceability Recovery},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
A number of important tasks in software maintenance require an up-to-date requirements traceability matrix (RTM): change impact analysis, determination of test cases to execute for regression testing, etc. Generation and maintenance of RTMs is tedious and error-prone, and hence it is often not done. In this paper, we present RETRO (REquirements TRacing Ontarget), a special-purpose requirements tracing tool. We discuss how RETRO automates the generation of RTMs and present the results of a study comparing manual RTM generation to RTM generation using RETRO. The study showed that RETRO found significantly more correct links than manual tracing and took only one third of the time to do so.
