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Requirements traceability is an extremely important aspect of software development and especially of maintenance. Efficient maintaining of traceability links between high-level requirements specification and low-level implementation is hindered by many problems. In this paper, we propose a method for automated recovery of links between parts of the textual requirement specification and the source code of implementation. The described method is based on a method allowing extraction of a prototype domain model from plain text requirements specification. The proposed method is evaluated on two non-trivial examples. The performed experiments show that our method is able to link requirements with source code with the accuracy of \(F_1=58-61\,\%\).
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This work was partially supported by the EU project ASCENS 257414, partially supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme FP7-PEOPLE-2010-ITN under grant agreement n\(^\circ \)264840, and partially supported by Charles University institutional funding SVV-2014-260100.
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Vinárek, J., Hnětynka, P., Šimko, V., Kroha, P. (2014). Recovering Traceability Links Between Code and Specification Through Domain Model Extraction. In: Barjis, J., Pergl, R. (eds) Enterprise and Organizational Modeling and Simulation. EOMAS 2014. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 191. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44860-1_11
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