Concept mapping as a means of requirements tracing

L. Kof; R. Gacitua; M. Rouncefield; P. Sawyer

doi:10.1109/MARK.2010.5623813

Concept mapping as a means of requirements tracing

L. Kof, R. Gacitua, M. Rouncefield, P. Sawyer

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

Requirements documents often describe the system on different abstraction levels. This results in the fact that the same issues may be described in different documents and with different vocabulary. For analysts who are new to the application domain, this poses a major orientation problem, as they cannot link different concepts or documents with each other. In the presented paper, we propose an approach to map concepts extracted from different documents to each other. This, in turn, allows us to find related passages in different documents, even though the documents represent different levels of abstraction. Practical applicability of the approach was proven in a case study with real-world requirements documents.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2010 Third International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	22-31
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4244-8783-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MARK.2010.5623813
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2010
Event	2010 Third International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK) - Sydney, Australia Duration: 27 Sept 2010 → 27 Sept 2010

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Conference	2010 Third International Workshop on Managing Requirements Knowledge (MARK)
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	27/09/10 → 27/09/10

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