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Ready-to-Use Traceability on Evolving Projects

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This chapter focuses on traceability-related challenges in evolving projects and on tasks that are beyond the initial creation of traces. It revolves around two major activities in the traceability life cycle: (1) defining the traceability that is required on a project and (2) keeping the traceability ready-to-use by maintaining previously established trace links as the project evolves. The chapter provides a step by step process for designing a goal-oriented traceability strategy on a project and discusses the problem of traceability decay. It describes a particular approach to the (semi-)automated maintenance of traceability to address this problem and highlights a number of outstanding research challenges in the area.

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    Patrick Mäder

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Mäder, P., Gotel, O. (2012). Ready-to-Use Traceability on Evolving Projects. In: Cleland-Huang, J., Gotel, O., Zisman, A. (eds) Software and Systems Traceability. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2239-5_8

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