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A Graph-Based Requirement Traceability Maintenance Model

Authors:
Vikas Shukla
Guillaume Auriol
Claude Baron

Keywords: Requirement Traceability; Graph; Maintenance; Decision making.

Abstract:
Requirement traceability remains a challenging task for the software developers. It helps stakeholders to understand the various relationships between the artifacts produced during the development process. During this requirement evolution process, information is produced and is stocked as trace. Some part of this information is lost owing to traceability maintenance process as links are deleted and removed from the system. This lost information is very useful while making decisions during the development process. In this paper we discuss a graph-based traceability model, which allows easy maintenance without any significant information loss. We show that both nonfunctional and functional requirements can be traced forward and backward using our proposed graph-based traceability model.

Pages: 161 to 165

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-165-6

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011