Requirements traceability is essential for developing software systems of high quality. Whereas the traceability of the refinement, deployment, and use of a requirement is called posttraceability, the traceability of a requirement back to its origin is named pre-traceability. In this contribution we present a requirements engineering environment, called PRO-ART*, which enables requirements pre-...

Corporations are currently making progress in their efforts toward traceability, against the backdrop of practical realization of the automatic identification technologies such as RF tags and 2D barcodes. In order to consistently manage and access various types of product-related history information throughout the supply chain, it is necessary to develop information networks and databases for s...

Self-adaptive systems (SAS) automatically mitigate environmental changes and unexpected system issues at run time by adapting towards optimal configurations that enable continual requirements satisfaction. The increasing proliferation of SASs presents engineering challenges that reflect issues experienced by non-adaptive systems, more specifically, ensuring that continuing assurance for softwar...

Developing safety critical software is a complex process. Due to the fact that medical device software failure can lead to catastrophic consequences, numerous standards have been developed which govern software development in the medical device domain. Risk management has an important role in medical device software development as it is important to ensure that safe software is developed. Demon...

The comparability of biochemical measurement results performed by any medical laboratories could be reached only when common reference systems can be established for worldwide use. There is recognised a critical step in the reference systems to achieve traceability of values obtained using reference measurement procedures and reference materials traceable to the universally recognized and accep...

The intensive human effort needed to manually manage traceability information has increased the interest in utilizing automated traceability recovery techniques. Promising results have been achieved using Information Retrieval (IR) techniques to identify candidate traceability links between different types of artifacts—e.g., requirements, use cases, code classes. Different IR methods have been ...

Since software development is of a dynamic nature, the impact analysis is an inevitable work task. Traceability is known as one factor that supports this task, and several researchers have proposed traceability recovery tools to propose trace links in an existing system. However, these semi-automatic tools have not yet proven useful in industrial applications. Based on an established automation...

Software traceability and its subsequent impact analysis help relate the consequences or ripple-effects of a proposed change across different levels of software system. Our software traceability approach can be observed at its ability to integrate the high level with the low level software models of object-oriented software that include the requirements, test cases, design and code. It supports...

Recovering traceability links between software artifacts and requirements is a common task in Software Engineering. Information Retrieval (IR) techniques have been applied to recover traceability links amongst code and requirements. By transforming Models into Natural Language (M2NL), it is possible to apply IR to calculate their traceability links to requirements. However, results retrieved by...

Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology developments have great impacts on traditional industries, thereby resulting in their competitiveness enhancements. This paper focuses on the collaboration of food industry and the state-of-the-art internet of things technologies and presents an internet of things identifier service based-quality safety traceability system. First, the motivatio...