Paper Info
Title
An end-to-end industrial software traceability tool
Abstract
Traceability is an important aspect of software development that is often required by various professional standards and government agencies. Yet current industrial approaches do not typically address end-to-end traceability. Moreover, many industry projects become entangled in process overhead and fail to derive much benefit from current traceability solutions. This paper presents a successful end-to-end software traceability tool developed at Wonderware, a software development company and a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc. This process-oriented approach achieves comprehensive traceability and supports the entire software development life cycle by focusing on both requirements traceability and process traceability. We offer new perspectives in analyzing the problem as well as general traceability guidelines. These guidelines have emerged from the experience of implementing and deploying the traceability tool within actual company constraints. We discuss encouraging results and point to the advantages gained in using our approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1145/1287624.1287642
ESEC / SIGSOFT FSE
Keywords
Field
DocType
current traceability solution,traceability tool,end-to-end traceability,process traceability,end-to-end industrial software traceability,software development,general traceability guideline,successful end-to-end software traceability,comprehensive traceability,entire software development life,requirements traceability,software development life cycle
Software engineering,Computer science,Work in process,Software,Systems development life cycle,Software verification and validation,Software development,Traceability,Requirements traceability,Reverse semantic traceability
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
38
1.38
18
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hazeline U. Asuncion111710.45
Frédéric François2381.38
Richard N. Taylor35395482.75