atem2006s/paper02

ATEM 2006 SI paper:
Ontological Approach for the Semantic Recovery of Traceability Links between Software Artefacts

Yonggang Zhang, René Witte, Juergen Rilling, Volker Haarslev

• DOI: 10.1049/iet-sen:20070062
• Extended version of A Unified Ontology-Based Process Model for Software Maintenance and Comprehension (ATEM 2006)
• T5G: Traceability
  • The paper’s central goal is to recover (re-establish) traceability links between documentation and source code at fine granularity.
• T3E: Ontologies
  • It relies on formal ontological representations and ontology reasoning to infer explicit and implicit relations among artefacts.
• T2B: Evolution
  • The motivation and application context are software comprehension and maintenance, where missing links hamper evolution activities.
• T5E: Empirical Evaluation
  • It reports on applying and evaluating the approach (including an application example) to assess the recovered links and reasoning benefits.

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