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Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study

Cepulis, Darius
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3108-1352
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin153537889647146

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2018, MS, University of Cincinnati, Engineering and Applied Science: Computer Science.
Work in information foraging theory presumes that software developers have a prede- fined patch of information (e.g., a Java class) within which they conduct a search task. However, not all tasks have easily delineated patches. Requirements traceability, where a developer must traverse a combination of technical artifacts and social structures, is one such task. We examine requirements socio-technical graphs to describe the key re- lationships that a patch should encode to assist in a requirements traceability task. We then present an algorithm, based on spreading activation, which extracts a relevant set of these relationships as a patch. We test this algorithm in requirements repositories of four open-source software projects. Our results show that applying this algorithm creates useful patches with reduced superfluous information.
Nan Niu, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Chia Han, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Carla Purdy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
76 p.
Computer Science
Information Foraging Theory; Spreading Activation; Requirements Traceability; Socio-Technical Networks

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  • Cepulis, D. (2018). Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin153537889647146

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Cepulis, Darius. Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin153537889647146.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Cepulis, Darius. "Creating Socio-Technical Patches for Information Foraging: A Requirements Traceability Case Study." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin153537889647146

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