A Traceability Method for Crosscutting Concerns with Transformation Rules

  • Authors:
  • Marta S. Tabares;Ana Moreira;Raquel Anaya;Fernando Arango;Joao Araujo

  • Affiliations:
  • Escuela de Ingeniería de Antioquia, Colombia;Informática, FCT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal;Escuela de Ingeniería, DS/Universidad EAFIT;Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia;CITI/Departamento de Informática, FCT/Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • ICSEW '07 Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper proposes a traceability approach for crosscutting concerns. This approach provides a tracing semantics that allows us to identify the tracing links between the source and target elements as well as their transformation rules. These rules are verified for completeness and consistency in order to control and support the evolution of crosscutting concerns. The Health Watcher [3] case study is used to illustrate our approach.