Several models proposed traceability links that provide pre–defined groups of links for requirements traceability. These models are limited to pre–defined links without the ability to add new attributes to the existing links. This work proposes a model for requirements traceability that generalizes the types of links already established in the literature and enables addition of new standards al...

Traceability is a modern concept that allows following a product’s route from raw materials to the selling stage, taking into consideration its complete flow by means of identifying and tracking procedures and documents. Recently, food traceability has gained significant importance as it allows efficient identification, correction or removal of risk factors throughout the food chain in order to...

In 2007, the software and systems traceability community met at the first Natural Bridge symposium on the Grand Challenges of Traceability to establish and address research goals for achieving effective, trustworthy, and ubiquitous traceability. Ten years later, in 2017, the community came together to evaluate a decade of progress towards achieving these goals. These proceedings document some o...

Traceability is an important feature in model-driven development. Many research initiatives are currently investigating how to collect, store and utilize traceability information to improve the quality of the MDD process, and there is a need to unify the results from these initiatives. This paper proposes a generic solution for traceability that offers a set of services that is meant to cover b...

Software evolution is inevitable. When a system evolves, there are certain relationships among software artifacts that must be maintained. Requirement traceability is one of the important factors in facilitating software evolution since it maintains the artifacts relationship before and after a change is performed. Requirement traceability can be expensive activities. Many researchers have addr...

Traceability has recently gained considerable attention in the textile industry. Traceability stands for information sharing about a product including the product history, specification, or location. With the involvement of globally dispersed actors in the textile supply chain, ensuring appropriate product quality with timely supplies is crucial for surviving in this industry with ever increasi...

Traceability is an important quality of software requirements and allows to describe and follow their life throughout a development project. The importance of traceable requirements is reflected by the fact that requirements standards, safety regulations, and maturity models explicitly demand for it. In practice, traceability is created and maintained by humans, which make mistakes. In result, ...

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 ...