Toward Reference Models for Requirements Traceability
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A UML-based aspect-oriented design notation for AspectJ
AOSD '02 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Aspect-oriented software development
An Object-Oriented Tool for Tracing Requirements
IEEE Software
AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming
AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming
From Aspectual Requirements to Proof Obligations for Aspect-Oriented Systems
RE '04 Proceedings of the Requirements Engineering Conference, 12th IEEE International
Concern modeling in the concern manipulation environment
MACS '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Modeling and analysis of concerns in software
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Several aspect-oriented approaches have been proposed to specify aspects at different phases in the software life cycle. Aspects can appear within a phase, be refined or mapped to other aspects in later phases, or even disappear. Tracing aspects is necessary to support understandability and maintainability of software systems. Although several approaches have been introduced to address traceability of aspects, two important limitations can be observed. First, tracing is not yet tackled for the entire life cycle. Second, the traceability model that is applied usually refers to elements of specific aspect languages, thereby limiting the reusability of the adopted traceability model. We propose the concern traceability metamodel (CTM) that enables traceability of concerns throughout the life cycle, and which is independent from the aspect languages that are used. CTM can be enhanced to provide additional properties for tracing, and be instantiated to define customized traceability models with respect to the required aspect languages. We have implemented CTM in the tool M-Trace, that uses XML-based representations of the models and XQuery queries to represent tracing information. CTM and M-Trace are illustrated for a Concurrent Versioning System to trace aspects from the requirements level to architecture design level and the implementation.