Concordance, conformance, versions, and traceability

  • Authors:
  • Ethan V. Munson;Tien N. Nguyen

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI;Iowa State University, Ames, IA

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

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Abstract

Since its inception in 1999, the Software Concordance Project has studied problems in software traceability [5]. Our research has been based on four principles:1. That effective traceability analysis must address the full range of documents produced by the software development process;2. That, for the foreseeable future, a large proportion of software documents will be written in natural languages, such as informal text or various types of diagrams, and that fully automated analysis of these documents will not be tractable;3. That traceability practices will only improve when developers have tools that substantially reduce the effort required to maintain traceability information; and4. That structured document and hypermedia technology is a good basis for traceability support in integrated development environments.