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Record W4403935863 · doi:10.1145/3652620.3688349

Mapping Requirements to Features to Create Traceability in Product Line Models

2024· article· en· W4403935863 on OpenAlex
Thomas Chiang, Richard F. Paige, Alan Wassyng, Sébastien Mosser

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicAdvanced Software Engineering Methodologies
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTraceabilityComputer scienceProduct lineProduct (mathematics)Software product lineLine (geometry)Requirements traceabilitySystems engineeringSoftware engineeringEngineeringRequirements analysisManufacturing engineeringRequirementProgramming languageSoftware developmentSoftwareMathematics

Abstract

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Developers and engineers have shown the many benefits of feature modelling for identifying reusable software and hardware components across product lines and platforms. However, a gap exists when it comes to identifying reusable products, and requirements across iterations of features. Due to the ambiguous relationship between features and requirements, it can be difficult to determine the boundary between them. We propose a methodology for using features to encapsulate requirements by establishing a clear hierarchy between features and requirements. This will assist feature-requirement traceability tooling and automation development.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.278
Threshold uncertainty score0.512

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.111
GPT teacher head0.356
Teacher spread0.245 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it