Requirements traceability offers many benefits to software projects, and it has been identified as critical for successful development. However, numerous challenges face the implementation of traceability in the software engineering industry. Some of these challenges can be overcome through organizational policy and procedure changes, but the lack of cost-effective traceability models and tools...

This study aim is to provide a feasible and effective way for the government supervision, agricultural enterprises and consumers to obtain traceability information. This study researches traceability of agricultural products. Through the analysis of the participators, the influence of the agricultural products circulation pattern of supply chain, traceability security system and tracing process...

Software traceability is the ability to relate artefacts created during the development life cycle of software system. Traceability is essential in the software development process and it has been used to support several activities such as impact analysis, software maintenance and evolution, component reuse, verification and validation. Moreover, the importance of traceability in the software d...

Traceability exists in many food supply chains for valid economic reasons, one of which is improving food safety and quality. Some politicians and consumer groups are calling for increased identity preservation in systems where traceability has not yet been adopted. In this paper, we explore the implications of adding traceability to a food supply chain that already includes an inspection proto...

Software traceability is a required component of many software development processes. Advocates of requirements traceability cite advantages like easier program comprehension and support for software maintenance (i.e., software change). However, despite its growing popularity, there exists no published evaluation about the usefulness of requirements traceability. It is important, if not crucial...

Traceability, the ability to track parts and products, is a necessity for many enterprise applications. These include pilferage reduction, counterfeit prevention, and targeted recalls. In this paper, we share lessons learned from a comparative analysis of two state of the art traceability data management systems: a federated system for parts traceability; and a distributed system for distributi...

The Food & Drug Administration has begun requiring that electronic submissions of regulated clinical studies utilize the Clinical Data Information Standards Consortium data standards. Within regulated clinical research, traceability is a requirement and indicates that the analysis results can be traced back to the original source data. Current solutions for clinical research data traceability a...

Traceability of software artifacts, from requirements to design and through implementation and quality assurance, has long been promoted by the research and expert practitioner communities. However, evidence indicates that, with the exception of those operating in the safety critical domain, few software companies choose to implement traceability processes, in the most part due to cost and comp...

Strict regulations including risk assessment, labeling, traceability and marketing have been established due to the controversial safety aspects of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). One of the main polemic issues associated with GMOs safety are the possible unintended effects, defined as effects that go beyond the primary expected effects of the genetic modification. In order to effectivel...

[Context & motivation] Traceability of software engineering artifacts is important in software development. Tools are used to establish traceability between software engineering artifacts. [Problem] One of the open traceability challenges is the traceability-configuration during usage. At any time within a project, the traceability information model (TIM) should be adaptable to changing context...