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Leveraging Traceability between Code and Tasks for Code Review and Release Management

Authors:
Nitesh Narayan
Alexander Delater
Jan Finis
Yang Li

Keywords: traceability; code review; release management; patch; branch.

Abstract:
The software maintenance process relies on traceability information captured throughout the development of a software product. Traceability from code to software engineering artifacts like features or requirements has been extensively researched. In this paper, we focus on traceability links between code and tasks. Tasks can be further linked to other artifacts such as features or requirements. In this paper, we present an approach for (semi-) automatic creation of traceability links between code and tasks. The core idea is to let the developers create the links themselves while they use a version control system. We use these traceability links to improve the processes of code review and release management. A prototype based on this work has been implemented and integrated into the model-based CASE tool UNICASE. We applied the developed prototype in the open-source project UNICASE itself and report about our significant experiences.

Pages: 8 to 14

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: November 18, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-230-1

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Dates: from November 18, 2012 to November 23, 2012