FasTLInC: a constraint-based tracing approach
Journal of Systems and Software
Event-Based Traceability for Managing Evolutionary Change
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Hypertext support for the information needs of software maintainers
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
IBM Systems Journal - Model-driven software development
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To reduce the effort spent on system comprehension during software maintenance, easy access to different type of information describing the system features is necessary. This is used by the maintainer to build a mental model of the software. Links relating different types of information are often implicit, and called traceability links. Extracting all traceability links of possible interest from the system documentation would be an extremely complex operation. Storing and updating a database of such information manually would be an expensive task. We propose that the identification of information about a feature is done dynamically. The maintainer is provided with a powerful query mechanism for identifying a starting point for collecting information. Further information is identified dynamically by automatically expanding several predefined types of traceability links. This avoids the problems of the traditional database approach. To make the query mechanism scalable, an architectural description of the system is used to limit the size of information which must be inspected by a query.