TY - GEN
T1 - Traceability-enabled refactoring for managing just-in-time requirements
AU - Niu, Nan
AU - Bhowmik, Tanmay
AU - Liu, Hui
AU - Niu, Zhendong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/9/26
Y1 - 2014/9/26
N2 - Just-in-time requirements management, characterized by lightweight representation and continuous refinement of requirements, fits many iterative and incremental development projects. Being lightweight and flexible, however, can cause wasteful and procrastinated implementation, leaving certain stakeholder goals not satisfied. This paper proposes traceability-enabled refactoring aimed at fulfilling more requirements fully. We make a novel use of requirements traceability to accurately locate where the software should be refactored, and develop a new scheme to precisely determine what refactorings should be applied to the identified places. Our approach is evaluated through an industrial study. The results show that our approach recommends refactorings more appropriately than a contemporary recommender.
AB - Just-in-time requirements management, characterized by lightweight representation and continuous refinement of requirements, fits many iterative and incremental development projects. Being lightweight and flexible, however, can cause wasteful and procrastinated implementation, leaving certain stakeholder goals not satisfied. This paper proposes traceability-enabled refactoring aimed at fulfilling more requirements fully. We make a novel use of requirements traceability to accurately locate where the software should be refactored, and develop a new scheme to precisely determine what refactorings should be applied to the identified places. Our approach is evaluated through an industrial study. The results show that our approach recommends refactorings more appropriately than a contemporary recommender.
KW - just-in-time requirements
KW - refactoring
KW - requirements management
KW - traceability
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84909957410
U2 - 10.1109/RE.2014.6912255
DO - 10.1109/RE.2014.6912255
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84909957410
T3 - 2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2014 - Proceedings
SP - 133
EP - 142
BT - 2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2014 - Proceedings
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE 22nd International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2014
Y2 - 25 August 2014 through 29 August 2014
ER -