To achieve traceability in discontinuous (discrete or batch) processes can be rather straightforward since identification markers, such as bar codes or serial numbers, can be attached to the product/batch or its package and be scanned at predetermined locations in the supply chain. However, continuous processes differ from discontinuous processes in a number of ways and these differences result...

Complex, business critical software systems have to adapt to frequently changing needs. Evolutionary development processes have been developed to enable short responses to changes. In complex settings the changes bear high risks, such as incomplete implementation, misunderstood dependencies, missing comprehension and lacking coverage. To manage these risks, the concept of traceability has been ...

Artifacts for requirements engineering, project management and code implementation are usually stored in separate tools, which makes traceability between these artifacts difficult. We developed the tool UNICASE Trace Client, which stores the aforementioned artifacts in a single environment with full traceability between all artifacts. In this paper, we describe the three traceability link creat...

On complex and flexible industrial collaboration environments, manufacturing traceability has to move from a traditional internal enterprise activity-based view to a collaborative and distributed one. The objective is to implement global traceability: traceability of the whole manufacturing process when performed by several partner companies (extended enterprise). The paper proposes a model to ...

The support for traceability between requirement specifications has been recognised as an important task in the development life-cycle of software systems. In this paper we present an approach for automatic generation and maintenance of bi-directional traceability relations between commercial and functional requirements expressed in natural language, and requirement object models. The generatio...

Researchers and practitioners alike agree that software traceability is important to software development. Despite its recognized utility, software traceability has largely been infeasible in practice due to the high costs involved and the low benefits obtained. In the first part of this survey, we identify the difficulties that hinder end-to-end software traceability, and we analyze these diff...

Traceability is the ability of stakeholders to describe and follow the life of an artifact throughout the software development life cycle. Traceability is one of the most important quality attributes that are indicative of the maturity of software development organizations. While there has been extensive research focusing on the development of traceability models and support systems for differe...

There is a blossoming of voluntary certification initiatives for sustainable agro-food products and production processes. With these certification initiatives come traceability in supply chains, to guarantee the sustainability of the products consumed. No systematic analysis exists of traceability systems for sustainability in agro-food supply chains. Hence, the purpose of this article is to an...