Locating Procedural Steps in Source Code
Shinpei Hayashi, Teppei Kato, Motoshi Saeki · 2023
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.