Browsing by Author "Balasubramaniam, D"

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Support for traceability management of software artefacts using natural language processing
(IEEE, 2016-04) Arunthavanathan, A; Shanmugathasan, S; Ratnavel, S; Thiyagarajah, V; Perera, I; Meedeniya, D; Balasubramaniam, D; Jayasekara, AGBP; Bandara, HMND; Amarasinghe, YWR
One of the major problems in software development process is managing software artefacts. While software evolves, inconsistencies between the artefacts do evolve as well. To resolve the inconsistencies in change management, a tool named “Software Artefacts Traceability Analyzer (SATAnalyzer)” was introduced as the previous work of this research. Changes in software artefacts in requirement specification, Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagrams and source codes can be tracked with the help of Natural Language Processing (NLP) by creating a structured format of those documents. Therefore, in this research we aim at adding an NLP support as an extension to SAT-Analyzer. Enhancing the traceability links created in the SAT-analyzer tool is another focus due to artefact inconsistencies. This paper includes the research methodology and relevant research carried out in applying NLP for improved traceability management. Tool evaluation with multiple scenarios resulted in average Precision 72.22%, Recall 88.89% and F1 measure of 78.89% suggesting high accuracy for the domain.
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Tool Support for Traceability of Software Artefacts
(2015-08-14) Kamalabalan, K; Uruththirakodeeswaran, T; Thiyagalingam, G; Wijesinghe, DB; Perera, GIUS; Meedeniya, DA; Balasubramaniam, D
Artefact management in a software development process is a challenging problem. Often there is a wide variety of artefacts, which are maintained separately within a software development process, such as requirement specifications, architectural concerns, design specifications, source codes and test cases, which are essential to software engineering. Artefact inconsistency is a major problem since these artefacts evolve at different rates. Maintaining traceability links among these artefacts and updating those artefacts accordingly can be a solution to address artefact inconsistency. There is a need for establishing these artefact traceability links in semi-automatic way. Proper management and visualization tool is required for effective software artefact management in an incremental software development. We present a prototype tool to establish artefact traceability links and visualization of those. This paper describes the research methodology and relevant research carried out for semi-automatic traceability link establishment and visualization of software artefacts.