An Integrated Model for Information Retrieval Based Change Impact Analysis
Joint Authors
Li, Tong
He, Yun
Wang, Wei
Zhu, Jiajun
Liu, Jinzhuo
Source
Issue
Vol. 2018, Issue 2018 (31 Dec. 2018), pp.1-13, 13 p.
Publisher
Hindawi Publishing Corporation
Publication Date
2018-03-01
Country of Publication
Egypt
No. of Pages
13
Main Subjects
Abstract EN
The paper presents an approach to combine multiple existing information retrieval (IR) techniques to support change impact analysis, which seeks to identify the possible outcomes of a change or determine the necessary modifications for affecting a desired change.
The approach integrates a bag-of-words based IR technique, where each class or method is abstracted as a set of words, and a neural network based IR technique to derive conceptual couplings from the source code of a software system.
We report rigorous empirical assessments of the changes of three open source systems: jEdit, muCommander, and JabRef.
The impact sets obtained are evaluated at the method level of granularity, and the results show that our integrated approach provides statistically significant improvements in accuracy across several cut points relative to the accuracies provided by the individual methods employed independently.
Improvements in F-score values of up to 7.3%, 10.9%, and 17.3% are obtained over a baseline technique for jEdit, muCommander, and JabRef, respectively.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Wang, Wei& He, Yun& Li, Tong& Zhu, Jiajun& Liu, Jinzhuo. 2018. An Integrated Model for Information Retrieval Based Change Impact Analysis. Scientific Programming،Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214719
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Wang, Wei…[et al.]. An Integrated Model for Information Retrieval Based Change Impact Analysis. Scientific Programming No. 2018 (2018), pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214719
American Medical Association (AMA)
Wang, Wei& He, Yun& Li, Tong& Zhu, Jiajun& Liu, Jinzhuo. An Integrated Model for Information Retrieval Based Change Impact Analysis. Scientific Programming. 2018. Vol. 2018, no. 2018, pp.1-13.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-1214719
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references
Record ID
BIM-1214719