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A Literature Review of Automatic Traceability Links Recovery for Software Change Impact Analysis

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Software and Systems Traceability

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Traceability in Agile Projects

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Fast and Precise Handling of Positive Weight Cycles for Field-Sensitive Pointer Analysis

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Interactive Recovery of Requirements Traceability Links Using User Feedback and Configuration Management Logs

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Detecting, classifying, and tracing non-functional software requirements

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Recovering from a decade: a systematic mapping of information retrieval approaches to software traceability

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Large-scale information retrieval in software engineering - an experience report from industrial application

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Estimating the number of remaining links in traceability recovery

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Tackling the term-mismatch problem in automated trace retrieval

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Evolving software trace links between requirements and source code

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Exploiting Parts-of-Speech for effective automated requirements traceability

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Leveraging textual properties of bug reports to localize relevant source files

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Search-based requirements traceability recovery: A multi-objective approach

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The Need for Traceability in Heterogeneous Systems: A Systematic Literature Review

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2017 IEEE 41st Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC)

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Traceability management for impact analysis

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Using Frugal User Feedback with Closeness Analysis on Code to Improve IR-Based Traceability Recovery

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An analysis of the requirements traceability problem

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The Impact of Retrieval Direction on IR-Based Traceability Link Recovery

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Integrated impact analysis for managing software changes

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TraceLab: An experimental workbench for equipping researchers to innovate, synthesize, and comparatively evaluate traceability solutions

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TraceME: Traceability Management in Eclipse

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Recovering transitive traceability links among software artifacts

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Using Observed Behavior to Reformulate Queries during Text Retrieval-based Bug Localization

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Automatic Traceability Maintenance via Machine Learning Classification

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Semi-Automated Feature Traceability with Embedded Annotations

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Identifying outdated requirements based on source code changes

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Trace++: A Traceability Approach to Support Transitioning to Agile Software Engineering

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Enhancing Automated Requirements Traceability by Resolving Polysemy

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Comparing Traceability through Information Retrieval, Commits, Interaction Logs, and Tags

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Source Code Level Word Embeddings in Aiding Semantic Test-to-Code Traceability

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Automatically Tracing Dependability Requirements via Term-Based Relevance Feedback

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Trustrace: Mining Software Repositories to Improve the Accuracy of Requirement Traceability Links

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Leveraging Historical Associations between Requirements and Source Code to Identify Impacted Classes

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A systematic literature review of traceability approaches between software architecture and source code

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Embrace your issues

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SVF: interprocedural static value-flow analysis in LLVM

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Employing issues and commits for in-code sentence based use case identification and remodularization

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Traceability in the wild

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Analyzing requirements and traceability information to improve bug localization

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