Automating Requirements Traceability: Beyond the Record & Replay Paradigm

Egyed, Alexander; GrÃ¼nbacher, Paul

doi:10.1109/ASE.2002.1115010

Automating Requirements Traceability: Beyond the Record & Replay Paradigm

by Alexander Egyed, Paul GrÃ¼nbacher

Abstract:

Requirements traceability (RT) aims at defining relationships between stakeholder requirements and artifacts produced during the software development life-cycle. Although techniques for generating and validating RT are available, RT in practice often suffers from the enormous effort and complexity of creating and maintaining traces or from incomplete trace information that cannot assist engineers in real-world problems. In this paper we will present a tool-supported technique easing trace acquisition by generating trace information automatically. We will explain the approach using a video-on-demand system and show that the generated traces can be used in various engineering scenarios to solve RT-related problems.

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Reference:

Alexander Egyed, Paul GrÃ¼nbacher, "Automating Requirements Traceability: Beyond the Record & Replay Paradigm", IEEE Computer Society, pp. 163-171, 2002.

Bibtex Entry:

@Conference{DBLP:conf/kbse/EgyedG02,
  Title                    = {Automating Requirements Traceability: Beyond the Record \& Replay Paradigm},
  Author                   = {Alexander Egyed and Paul GrÃ¼nbacher},
  Booktitle                = {Proceedings 17th IEEE Int'l Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2002), 23-27 September, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK},
  Year                     = {2002},
  Pages                    = {163-171},
  Publisher                = {IEEE Computer Society},

  Abstract                 = {Requirements traceability (RT) aims at defining relationships between stakeholder requirements and artifacts produced during the software development life-cycle. Although techniques for generating and validating RT are available, RT in practice often suffers from the enormous effort and complexity of creating and maintaining traces or from incomplete trace information that cannot assist engineers in real-world problems. In this paper we will present a tool-supported technique easing trace acquisition by generating trace information automatically. We will explain the approach using a video-on-demand system and show that the generated traces can be used in various engineering scenarios to solve RT-related problems.},
  Doi                      = {10.1109/ASE.2002.1115010},
  File                     = {Automating Requirements Traceability-Beyond the Record & Replay Paradigm:Conferences\\ASE 2002 - Automating Requirements Traceability\\Automating Requirements Traceability-Beyond the Record & Replay Paradigm.pdf:PDF},
  ISBN                     = {0-7695-1736-6},
  Keywords                 = {requirements, traceability},
  Owner                    = {paul},
  Timestamp                = {2015.09.12},
  Url                      = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/ASE.2002.1115010}
}