A reusable traceability framework using patterns

  • Authors:
  • Justin Kelleher

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Venue:
  • TEFSE '05 Proceedings of the 3rd international workshop on Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

To accomplish reusable traceability practices a common framework must be established. In this paper we describe a traceability framework which consists of a TRAceability Metamodel (TRAM) and a TRAceability Process (TRAP). TRAM provides a language for describing the elements of a traceability process. The TRAceability Process (TRAP) is a process authoring tool for publishing product lifecycle process configurations as a web site for practitioners to access. A key component of the traceability process is the introduction of traceability patterns which provide a standardized mechanism for the visualization and communication of reusable traceability practices.A tool environment supporting the traceability framework is described. The TRAceability Pattern Environment (TRAPEd) is an environment for the structured and collaborative design of a traceability metamodel, process and patterns. Finally we represent the traceability metamodel, process and patterns using Topic Maps (ISO 13250)