Locating Procedural Steps in Source Code

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Abstract

Some documents, such as use case descriptions, describe features consisting of multiple concepts with following a procedural flow. Because existing feature location techniques lack a relation between concepts in such features, it is difficult to identify the concepts in the source code with high accuracy. This paper presents a technique to locate concepts in a feature described in a structured document consisting of multiple procedural steps, such as a use case description, using dependency between the concepts. We apply an existing concept location technique to descriptions of concepts and obtain a list of modules. Modules failing to match the dependency between concepts are filtered out. Then, we can obtain a more precise list of modules. The conducted experiment underscores the effectiveness of our technique.

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• International Journal Locating Concepts on Use Case Steps in Source Code IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems, 2024

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hayashi-quors2023,
    author = {Shinpei Hayashi and Teppei Kato and Motoshi Saeki},
    title = {Locating Procedural Steps in Source Code},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Computer Software and Applications Conference},
    pages = {1607--1612},
    doi = {10.1109/COMPSAC57700.2023.00248},
    year = 2023,
}