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JSW 2017 Vol.12(5): 315-325 ISSN: 1796-217X
doi: 10.17706/jsw.12.5.315-325

An Empirical Study on Relationship between Requirement Traceability Links and Bugs

Rizki Amelia1, Hironori Washizaki1,3,4*, Yoshiaki Fukazawa1, Keishi Oshima2, Ryota Mibe2, Ryosuke Tsuchiya2

1Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.
2Hitachi, Ltd., Research & Development Group, Center for Technology Innovation - Systems Engineering, Japan.
3National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan.
4System Information CO.,LTD., Tokyo, Japan.

Abstract—Early bug detection reduces the cost of software maintenance, but previous works have not utilized requirement traceability links (RTLs) as predictors for bugs. To discuss how to use RTLs to predict the number of bugs, we propose an RTL recovery approach classification based on the ease of the recovery process. We investigate the relationship using data from industrial software. Classes related to more RTLs tend to have more bugs. The classification provides better correlations, and including RTLs in the bug prediction model does not affect the performance. Some class files with no and low RTLs also have bugs; we hypothesize that this occurs because the actual RTL is missing or not established, which is supported by the observation that bugs in these classes are highly correlated with the maximum cyclomatic complexity.

Index Terms—Requirement traceability links, bug prediction, software metrics, software maintenance.

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Cite: Rizki Amelia, Hironori Washizaki, Yoshiaki Fukazawa, Keishi Oshima, Ryota Mibe, Ryosuke Tsuchiya, "An Empirical Study on Relationship between Requirement Traceability Links and Bugs," Journal of Software vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 315-325, 2017.

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ISSN: 1796-217X (Online)
Frequency:  Quarterly
Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Antanas Verikas
Executive Editor: Ms. Yoyo Y. Zhou
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