Synergistic enhancement of requirement-to-code traceability: A framework combining large language model based data augmentation and an advanced encoder

Jianzhang Zhang; Jialong Zhou; Nan Niu; Jinping Hua; Chuang Liu

doi:10.1016/j.infsof.2026.108045

Synergistic enhancement of requirement-to-code traceability: A framework combining large language model based data augmentation and an advanced encoder

Jianzhang Zhang
, Jialong Zhou
, Nan Niu
, Jinping Hua
, Chuang Liu

School of Computing

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Original language	English
Article number	108045
Journal	Information and Software Technology
Volume	193
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infsof.2026.108045
State	Published - Jan 27 2026

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

Software
Information Systems
Computer Science Applications

Keywords

Data augmentation
Large language models
Prompt engineering
Requirements traceability
Software engineering

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