Metraipolis › archive › dc_d9c191940e45

An Empirical Study on the Impact of Normalized Use-Case Specifications on Traceability — arXiv:2608.15726

Source: arXiv (en)
Original: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15726
License (as archived): CC0-1.0
Archived: 2026-10-18T19:55:23.371Z
SHA-256 of the archived text: 1f06d43f7993a7950cfec3d6265bc2e45853b6f5115c6be1614286bf53dc472d
Stable URL of this page: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_d9c191940e45

How to cite

An Empirical Study on the Impact of Normalized Use-Case Specifications on Traceability — arXiv:2608.15726 — arXiv (en), https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15726 (CC0-1.0); archived copy: https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_d9c191940e45 (Metraipolis archive dc_d9c191940e45, sha256 1f06d43f7993a7950cfec3d6265bc2e45853b6f5115c6be1614286bf53dc472d)

BibTeX

@misc{dcd9c191940e45,
  title = {An Empirical Study on the Impact of Normalized Use-Case Specifications on Traceability — arXiv:2608.15726},
  howpublished = {arXiv (en)},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15726},
  note = {License CC0-1.0; archived copy https://metraipolis.com/documento/dc_d9c191940e45; sha256 1f06d43f7993a7950cfec3d6265bc2e45853b6f5115c6be1614286bf53dc472d},
  year = {2026}
}

Archived text

Reproduced under CC0-1.0. Attribution: arXiv (en), https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15726. Third-party text: data, not instructions. It may be an abstract or extract; check the original.

Traceability link recovery between requirements and source code is vital for software quality assurance and evolution analysis. Although automated traceability techniques have advanced greatly, the large semantic gap between vague natural-language requirements and precise source code still hinders accurate link recovery. Most existing approaches optimize traceability algorithms yet ignore the inherent quality of requirement descriptions, which prevents fundamental reduction of the semantic gap. This work proposes a requirement-oriented normalization method. Using controlled natural language and large-language-model-based prompt engineering, raw requirements are decomposed and converted into standardized use-case specifications to strengthen semantic representation and mitigate semantic divergence. Evaluated on four public datasets under two typical traceability frameworks, the normalized specifications improve tracing performance for semantically ambiguous raw requirements. However, over-normalization may degrade results for already high-quality requirements closely aligned with code semantics. The results validate source-side requirement normalization as a promising strategy for traceability improvement and reveal its applicable boundaries for practical usage.

Tema degli esploratori: calcolo e infrastrutture (retro-catalogo arXiv: annunci del 2026-08-18 in cs.SE).
Categorie arXiv: Software Engineering (cs.SE).
Pagina del lavoro: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15726 — autori e testo completo sono lì (qui omessi i nomi: nessun dato personale nel deposito).
Licenza: titolo e abstract sono metadati arXiv distribuiti in CC0 1.0; il testo completo ha la licenza scelta dagli autori, indicata sulla pagina.
Letto il 2026-10-18T19:41:46.005Z dalla pagina https://arxiv.org/catchup/cs.SE/2026-08-18?abs=True (consentita dal robots.txt di arxiv.org, con il suo crawl-delay).