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Software and Systems Traceability

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Editors:
  1. Jane Cleland-Huang

    1. , School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

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  2. Orlena Gotel

    1. New York, USA

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  3. Andrea Zisman

    1. , School of Informatics, City University, London, United Kingdom

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  • Provides a comprehensive description of the practices and theories of software traceability across all phases of the software development cycle
  • A reference point for traceability research and practice
  • Addresses the topic of traceability in a detailed manner

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Software and Systems Traceability provides a comprehensive description of the practices and theories of software traceability across all phases of the software development lifecycle. The term software traceability is derived from the concept of requirements traceability. Requirements traceability is the ability to track a requirement all the way from its origins to the downstream work products that implement that requirement in a software system. Software traceability is defined as the ability to relate the various types of software artefacts created during the development of software systems. Traceability relations can improve the quality of a product being developed, and reduce the time and cost of development. More specifically, traceability relations can support evolution of software systems, reuse of parts of a system by comparing components of new and existing systems, validation that a system meets its requirements, understanding of the rationale for certain design and implementation decisions, and analysis of the implications of changes in the system.

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Traceability Strategy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Traceability Fundamentals

      • Orlena Gotel, Jane Cleland-Huang, Jane Huffman Hayes, Andrea Zisman, Alexander Egyed, Paul Grünbacher et al.
      Pages 3-22

    3. Cost-Benefits of Traceability

      • Claire Ingram, Steve Riddle
      Pages 23-42

    4. Acquiring Tool Support for Traceability

      • Orlena Gotel, Patrick Mäder
      Pages 43-68

  3. Traceability Creation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 69-69
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    2. Information Retrieval Methods for Automated Traceability Recovery

      • Andrea De Lucia, Andrian Marcus, Rocco Oliveto, Denys Poshyvanyk
      Pages 71-98

    3. Factors Impacting the Inputs of Traceability Recovery Approaches

      • Nasir Ali, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Giuliano Antoniol
      Pages 99-127

    4. Automated Techniques for Capturing Custom Traceability Links Across Heterogeneous Artifacts

      • Hazeline U. Asuncion, Richard N. Taylor
      Pages 129-146

    5. Using Rules for Traceability Creation

      • Andrea Zisman
      Pages 147-170

  4. Traceability Maintenance

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-172
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    2. Ready-to-Use Traceability on Evolving Projects

      • Patrick Mäder, Orlena Gotel
      Pages 173-194

    3. Evolution-Driven Trace Acquisition in Eclipse-Based Product Line Workspaces

      • Wolfgang Heider, Paul Grünbacher, Rick Rabiser, Martin Lehofer
      Pages 195-213

    4. Traceability in Model-Driven Engineering: Efficient and Scalable Traceability Maintenance

      • Andreas Seibel, Regina Hebig, Holger Giese
      Pages 215-240

    5. Studying the Role of Humans in the Traceability Loop

      • Alex Dekhtyar, Jane Huffman Hayes
      Pages 241-261

  5. Traceability Use

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 263-264
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    2. Traceability in Agile Projects

      • Jane Cleland-Huang
      Pages 265-275

    3. Traceability Between Run-Time and Development Time Abstractions

      • Wouter De Borger, Bert Lagaisse, Wouter Joosen
      Pages 277-298

    4. Tracing Non-Functional Requirements

      • Mehdi Mirakhorli, Jane Cleland-Huang
      Pages 299-320

    5. Medical Device Software Traceability

      • Fergal Mc Caffery, Valentine Casey, M. S. Sivakumar, Gerry Coleman, Peter Donnelly, John Burton
      Pages 321-339
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Editors and Affiliations

  • , School of Computing, DePaul University, Chicago, USA

    Jane Cleland-Huang

  • New York, USA

    Orlena Gotel

  • , School of Informatics, City University, London, United Kingdom

    Andrea Zisman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Software and Systems Traceability

  • Editors: Jane Cleland-Huang, Orlena Gotel, Andrea Zisman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2239-5

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2238-8Published: 02 February 2012

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-5819-6Published: 13 April 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2239-5Published: 01 February 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 494

  • Topics: Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Software Engineering

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