A survey of traceability in requirements engineering and model-driven development

Traceability—the ability to follow the life of software artifacts—is a topic of great interest to software developers in general, and to requirements engineers and model-driven developers in particular. This article aims to bring those stakeholders together by providing an overview of the current st...

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Published in:Software and systems modeling Vol. 9; no. 4; pp. 529 - 565
Main Authors: Winkler, Stefan, von Pilgrim, Jens
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.09.2010
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects:
Automated
Commonality
Compilers
Computer programs
Computer Science
Developers
Foundations
Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet)
Interpreters
IT in Business
Programming Languages
Programming Techniques
Recording
Software
Software Engineering
Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems
Theme Section
Model-driven engineering
Traceability
Requirements engineering
Model-driven development
ISSN:1619-1366, 1619-1374
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Summary:Traceability—the ability to follow the life of software artifacts—is a topic of great interest to software developers in general, and to requirements engineers and model-driven developers in particular. This article aims to bring those stakeholders together by providing an overview of the current state of traceability research and practice in both areas. As part of an extensive literature survey, we identify commonalities and differences in these areas and uncover several unresolved challenges which affect both domains. A good common foundation for further advances regarding these challenges appears to be a combination of the formal basis and the automated recording opportunities of MDD on the one hand, and the more holistic view of traceability in the requirements engineering domain on the other hand.
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ISSN:1619-1366
1619-1374
DOI:10.1007/s10270-009-0145-0