Industrial comparability of student artifacts in traceability recovery research - An exploratory survey
(2012) 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering p.181-190- Abstract
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About a hundred studies on traceability recovery have been published in software engineering fora. In roughly half of them, software artifacts developed by students have been used as input. To what extent student artifacts differ from industrial counterparts has not been fully explored in the literature. We conducted a survey among authors of studies on traceability recovery, including both academics and practitioners, to explore their perspectives on the matter. Our results indicate that a majority of authors consider software artifacts originating from student projects to be only partly representative to industrial artifacts. Moreover, only few respondents validated student artifacts for industrial... (More) - Abstract in Undetermined
About a hundred studies on traceability recovery have been published in software engineering fora. In roughly half of them, software artifacts developed by students have been used as input. To what extent student artifacts differ from industrial counterparts has not been fully explored in the literature. We conducted a survey among authors of studies on traceability recovery, including both academics and practitioners, to explore their perspectives on the matter. Our results indicate that a majority of authors consider software artifacts originating from student projects to be only partly representative to industrial artifacts. Moreover, only few respondents validated student artifacts for industrial representativeness. Furthermore, our respondents made suggestions for improving the description of artifact sets used in studies by adding contextual, domain-specific and artifact-centric information. Example suggestions include adding descriptions of processes used for artifact development, meaning of traceability links, and the structure of artifacts. Our findings call for further research on characterization and validation of software artifacts to support aggregation of results from empirical studies. (Less)
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- Borg, Markus LU ; Wnuk, Krzysztof LU and Pfahl, Dietmar LU
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- publishing date
- 2012
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- Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- empirical study, software artifacts, traceability, survey
- host publication
- [Host publication title missing]
- editor
- Mens, Tom ; Cleve, Anthony and Ferenc, Rudolf
- pages
- 9 pages
- publisher
- IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
- conference name
- 16th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering
- conference location
- Szeged, Hungary
- conference dates
- 2012-03-27
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- wos:000309348900019
- scopus:84860506922
- ISBN
- 978-0-7695-4666-7
- DOI
- 10.1109/CSMR.2012.27
- project
- Embedded Applications Software Engineering
- language
- English
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- yes
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- ce4c9795-8e90-433c-b555-b6c374ff822c (old id 2429041)
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abstract = {{Abstract in Undetermined<br/>About a hundred studies on traceability recovery have been published in software engineering fora. In roughly half of them, software artifacts developed by students have been used as input. To what extent student artifacts differ from industrial counterparts has not been fully explored in the literature. We conducted a survey among authors of studies on traceability recovery, including both academics and practitioners, to explore their perspectives on the matter. Our results indicate that a majority of authors consider software artifacts originating from student projects to be only partly representative to industrial artifacts. Moreover, only few respondents validated student artifacts for industrial representativeness. Furthermore, our respondents made suggestions for improving the description of artifact sets used in studies by adding contextual, domain-specific and artifact-centric information. Example suggestions include adding descriptions of processes used for artifact development, meaning of traceability links, and the structure of artifacts. Our findings call for further research on characterization and validation of software artifacts to support aggregation of results from empirical studies.}},
author = {{Borg, Markus and Wnuk, Krzysztof and Pfahl, Dietmar}},
booktitle = {{[Host publication title missing]}},
editor = {{Mens, Tom and Cleve, Anthony and Ferenc, Rudolf}},
isbn = {{978-0-7695-4666-7}},
keywords = {{empirical study; software artifacts; traceability; survey}},
language = {{eng}},
pages = {{181--190}},
publisher = {{IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}},
title = {{Industrial comparability of student artifacts in traceability recovery research - An exploratory survey}},
url = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/5696400/2862089.pdf}},
doi = {{10.1109/CSMR.2012.27}},
year = {{2012}},
}