Requirement traceability is intended to ensure continued alignment between stakeholders’ requirements and various outputs of the system development process. Therefore a process for requirement traceability is a significant factor on efficient software project management. Failure to do so will imply in higher costs for maintaining software systems. Methodologies supporting requirement traceabili...

Many information systems are reengineered and redeveloped in practice, since they are legacy software. Typically, no requirements and design specifications exist and, therefore, also no traceability information. While especially the long-term utility of such information is well known, an important question in reengineering is whether installing it can have immediate benefits in the course of th...

Globalization of trade and higher volume flows lead to the necessity of new approaches in design of traceability systems. Since containerization becomes a dominant technique in the general cargo trade and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology have already proven to be effective in traceability systems to get data about physical objects, this paper proposes an integrated approach to R...

These two papers represent the base literature-based Traceability recovery. Specifically, Traceability Recovery represents a key software maintenance activity in which software engineers extract the relationships among software artifacts. Extract and manage traceability between software artifacts is important for software development and maintenance: program comprehension, requirement tracing, ...

traceMAINTAINER is a tool that supports an approach for maintaining post-requirements traceability relations after changes have been made to traced model elements. The update of traceability relations is based upon predefined rules, where each rule is intended to recognize a development activity applied to a model element and trigger the necessary traceability update directives. This means that...

background:confirmation of olive oil authenticity and particularly virgin olive oil has a great importance. several advanced chemical and genetic analyses have been used to monitor especial components; however each has its limitations especially when detecting hazelnut-adulterated olive oil. objectives:the objective of this research is to assess the presence of trace amount of hazelnut oil in o...

In this article, we present a study of the correlation between factorization and the quality criterion of traceability. Our work is based on a set of new factorization metrics and a specific definition of traceability. The results of our experiment show a good correlation between the increase of the factorization of a UML class diagram and its traceability.

Influencing Requirements Traceability Practice R equirements traceability is viewed as a measure of system quality and is mandated by many standards governing the development of systems (for example, MIL–STD-498). Though the importance and role of traceability in supporting systems development have been long recognized, there are wide variations in the quality and usefulness of the practice [7]...

Software developers have used agents as a way to understand, model, and develop complex systems more naturally. Traceability has been recognized by many as an important strategy for developing and maintaining high quality software. Reference models for supporting traceability information have been proposed in the literature. However, none was specifically tailored for agent-oriented systems. In...

Traceability has become an essential business function to consistently supply quality and safe food products to consumers. However, it has been not rare that the efforts in traceability are separately made from routine operations management decisions. In this paper, an integrated optimisation model is developed in which the product safety related traceability factor is incorporated with operati...