Grand challenges, benchmarks, and TraceLab: developing infrastructure for the software traceability research community

  • Authors:
  • Jane Cleland-Huang;Adam Czauderna;Alex Dekhtyar;Olly Gotel;Jane Huffman Hayes;Ed Keenan;Greg Leach;Jonathan Maletic;Denys Poshyvanyk;Youghee Shin;Andrea Zisman;Giuliano Antoniol;Brian Berenbach;Alexander Egyed;Patrick Maeder

  • Affiliations:
  • DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA;California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA, USA;University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;Kent State University, Kent, OH, USA;College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA;DePaul University, Chicago, IL, USA;City College, London, London, United Kingdom;École Polytechnique de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada;Siemens Corp., USA, USA;Linz University, Linz, Austria;Linz University, Linz, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

The challenges of implementing successful and cost-effective traceability have created a compelling research agenda that has addressed a broad range of traceability related issues, ranging from qualitative studies of traceability users in industry to very technical and quantitative studies. Unfortunately, advances are hampered by the significant time and effort needed to establish a traceability research environment and to perform comparative evaluations of new results against existing baselines. In this panel we discuss ongoing efforts by members of the Center of Excellence for Software Traceability (CoEST) to define the Grand Challenges of Traceability, develop benchmarks, and to construct TraceLab, an extensible and scalable visual environment for designing and executing a broad range of traceability experiments.