Seamless traceability without compromise

  • Authors:
  • Paul Mason;Anuttara Tianvorakoon

  • Affiliations:
  • Shinawatra University, Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand;Shinawatra University, Chatuchak, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • ACST'07 Proceedings of the third conference on IASTED International Conference: Advances in Computer Science and Technology
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Traceability is the term used for mechanisms to record and subsequently navigate - ideally in a seamless fashion - relationships between any artifacts produced by systems development processes. Simple in theory! However, in practice the range of disjoint CASE tools engineers use to express and store these artifacts - and the lack of interoperability between them - mean seamless traceability is literally something of an ideal, tempered by numerous compromises. This paper presents a framework known as MAST (Meta-modelling Approach to System Traceability) that provides a possible solution to this problem. Building on and updating theoretical work previously proposed by this author [1], we demonstrate practical realisation of the framework.