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Authors: Krzysztof Wnuk 1 ; Markus Borg 2 and Tony Gorschek 1

Affiliations: 1 Software Engineering Department, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona and Sweden ; 2 Software and Systems Engineering, Laboratory at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden and Sweden

Keyword(s): Requirements Management, Traceability, Information Retrieval, Information Distance.

Related Ontology Subjects/Areas/Topics: Artificial Intelligence ; Knowledge Management and Information Sharing ; Knowledge-Based Systems ; Requirements Engineering ; Software Engineering ; Software Metrics ; Software Project Management ; Symbolic Systems

Abstract: Developing contemporary software solutions requires many processes and people working in synergy to achieve a common goal. Any misalignment between parts of the software production cycle can severely impede the quality of the development process and its resulting products. In this paper, we focus on improving means for measuring the quality of methods used to support finding similarities between software product artifacts, especially requirements. We propose a new set of measures, Signal-to-Noise ratios which extends the commonly used precision and recall measures. We test the applicability of all three types of SNR on two methods for finding similar requirements: the normalized compression distance (NCD) originating from the domain of information theory, and the Vector Space Model originating from computer linguistics. The results obtained present an interesting property of all types of SNR, all the values are centered around 1 which confirms our hypothesis that the analyzed methods can only limit the search space for the analysis. The analyst may still have difficulties in manually assessing the correct links among the incorrect ones. (More)

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Wnuk, K.; Borg, M. and Gorschek, T. (2019). Towards New Ways of Evaluating Methods of Supporting Requirements Management and Traceability using Signal-to-Noise Ratio. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE; ISBN 978-989-758-375-9; ISSN 2184-4895, SciTePress, pages 330-339. DOI: 10.5220/0007717203300339

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title={Towards New Ways of Evaluating Methods of Supporting Requirements Management and Traceability using Signal-to-Noise Ratio},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE},
year={2019},
pages={330-339},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007717203300339},
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issn={2184-4895},
}

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - ENASE
TI - Towards New Ways of Evaluating Methods of Supporting Requirements Management and Traceability using Signal-to-Noise Ratio
SN - 978-989-758-375-9
IS - 2184-4895
AU - Wnuk, K.
AU - Borg, M.
AU - Gorschek, T.
PY - 2019
SP - 330
EP - 339
DO - 10.5220/0007717203300339
PB - SciTePress