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Software Traceability: Trends and Future Directions

The document summarizes a research paper on software traceability trends and future directions. The paper studied recent literature on industrial traceability studies and interviewed practitioners. It identified understanding stakeholder needs, visualizing trace data, accessing trace data, maintaining trace integrity, and automating trace creation as key areas for future research. The paper also recommended research on planning, management, costs, and visualization techniques for traceability.

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Software Traceability: Trends and Future Directions

The document summarizes a research paper on software traceability trends and future directions. The paper studied recent literature on industrial traceability studies and interviewed practitioners. It identified understanding stakeholder needs, visualizing trace data, accessing trace data, maintaining trace integrity, and automating trace creation as key areas for future research. The paper also recommended research on planning, management, costs, and visualization techniques for traceability.

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Software Traceability:

Trends and Future


Directions
Research Paper By : Jane Cleland-Huang,Orlena C. Z. Gotel,Patrick Mder,Andrea Zisman & Jane Human
Hayes

Being Presented by Baber Sheikh


What is software
traceability ?
- The ability to identify and document the lineage of each requirement, including its derivation
(backward traceability), its allocation (forward traceability), and its relationship to other
requirements.

- Requirements have a habit of breeding.

- Why Needed ?

- Improve scope management.


- Improve test coverage and test cost.
- Improve change impact assessment.
Traceability Matrix
Example
Research paper
Study of recent literature describing industrial studies of
traceability

Asked eight seasoned practitioners from the healthcare,


enterprise information systems, military, and
transportation sectors for their perspectives on
traceability practice and challenges.
Goal Oriented Perspective
Process Oriented
Perspective
The Technical Perspective
Traceabilty research
Recommended areas of
research in traceability
- Understanding Stakeholder Needs
- Visualizing Trace Data
- Accessing and Querying Trace Data
- Trace Integrity
- Trace Maintenance
- Trace Creation
- Research Directions - Planning and Management, Cost, Visualization

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