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Traceability is the ability to describe and follow the life of a software artifact and a means for modeling the relations between software artifacts in an explicit way. Traceability has been successfully applied in many software engineering communities and has recently been adopted to document the transition among requirements, architecture and implementation. We present an approach to customiz...

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 a rule-based approach to support the automatic generation of traceability relations between documents which specify requirement statements and use cases (expressed in structured forms of natural language), and analy...

The purpose of traceability is to ensure persistent alignment of product knowledge between stakeholders, artifacts, and traceability objects. On the other hand, process knowledge is equally important to ensure a systematic software development process with accurate specification and verifiable quality attributes. Previous studies lacks in presenting a consolidated view from product and process ...

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[Context and motivation] Requirements traceability is known as an important part of development projects. Studies showed that traceability is applied in practice, but insufficient tooland method-support hinders its practical use. [Question/problem] We conducted a survey to understand which traceability usage scenarios are most relevant for practitioners. Gaining this information is a required s...

Traceability usage within different projects is as manifold as the domains in which traceability is applied. A traceability information model (TIM) describes the traceability for a project. A basic TIM consists of at least two types of artifacts and a traceability relation between these artifacts [3]. One of the open traceability challenges is the traceability adaptation during usage [1]. The T...

This work describes and evaluates TraceML, a modeling language for traceability information. Traceability is the degree to which relationships between products of a software development process can be established. Processing traceability information helps to handle the complexity of modern software development efforts and so to make software development more efficient. Up to date traceability h...