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Ensuring Traceability in Modeling Requirement Using Ontology Based Approach

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Requirements Engineering Toward Sustainable World (APRES 2016)

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Requirements traceability turns into essential principle in software engineering due to the needs to address evolving requirements in software system development. Requirements traceability helps to identify whether the entire requirements have been implemented consistently. However, the task to provide manual requirements traceability tends to become a costly and time-consuming procedure. It is unwise to invest the resources for manual monitoring and updating the traceability link in the requirements document. This work presents a solution to this problem by proposing an approach that uses an ontology-based knowledge representation along with information retrieval techniques. Ontology-based approach is used due to its ability to automatically generate the relationship among requirements concepts. In conclusion, the proposed approach is able to identify missing, broken or even new traceability links between the requirements artifacts.

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This research was supported by Next-Generation Information Computing Development Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning (2013M3C4A7056233).

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    Theresia Ratih Dewi Saputri

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    Seok-Won Lee

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Saputri, T.R.D., Lee, SW. (2016). Ensuring Traceability in Modeling Requirement Using Ontology Based Approach. In: Lee, SW., Nakatani, T. (eds) Requirements Engineering Toward Sustainable World . APRES 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 671. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3256-1_1

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