Building Model-Driven Engineering Traceability Classifications

Model-Driven Engineering involves the application of many different model management operations, some automated, some manual. For developers to stay in control of their models and codebase, trace information must be maintained by all model management operations. This leads to a large number of trace links, which themselves need to be managed, queried, and evaluated. Classifications of traceability and trace links are an essential capability required for understanding and managing trace links. We present a process for building traceability classifications for a variety of widely used and accepted operations (both automated and manual) and show the results of applying the process to a rich traceability context.