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...

Traceability relations are used to understand the dependencies between the artifacts created during the development of a software system. In model driven Engineering (MDE), traceability relations may be generated implicitly or explicitly. When changes occur to the models, it is necessary that the traceability links must be maintained and must be evolved. The purpose of this paper is to propose ...

The software maintenance process relies on traceability information captured throughout the development of a software product. Traceability from code to software engineering artifacts like features or requirements has been extensively researched. In this paper, we focus on traceability links between code and tasks. Tasks can be further linked to other artifacts such as features or requirements....

Traceability is a tool to help countries meet their objectives of controlling, preventing and eradicating animal diseases. This article sets out the required steps in a traceability system. Before designing a system of traceability, one must identify the different characteristics that need to be traced throughout the various steps in the food production chain. The interaction between different ...

Dealing with traceability management issues during model based product derivation in large complex industrial SPL is error prone due to the lack of tool support. As a result traceability management between connected models emerges as an important research topic. In this position paper, we discuss research challenges as scenarios from developed example product line and give recommendations on re...