Modellbasierte Extraktion, Repräsentation und Analyse von Traceability-Informationen

This work describes and evaluates TraceML, a modeling language for traceability information. Traceability is the degree to which relationships between products of a software development process can be established. Processing traceability information helps to handle the complexity of modern software development efforts and so to make software development more efficient. Up to date traceability has a problem in its application: Often it’s too expensive and of little use. Integrated and efficient approaches and tools for traceability are missing. TraceML contributes to solve this problem. It proposes a modeling language which allows to formulate traceability approaches and applications uniformly. First of all this work describes an organization scheme for the information and the process of traceability by an ontology and a value chain. Following TraceML is described in its structure and semantics. The capability of the approach is then evaluated in two applications: ReflexML, consistency analysis between architecture and code, and the Softwareleitstand a tool which condenses traceability information and software metrics to control software projects more efficiently. ReflexML is a dedicated research contribution in the field of software architectures.