Title
Interactive Traceability Links Visualization using Hierarchical Trace Map
Abstract
Traceability links between various software artifacts of a system aid software engineers in system comprehension, verification and change impact analysis. Establishing trace links between software artifacts manually is an error-prone and costly task. Recently, studies in automated traceability link recovery area have received broad attention in the software maintenance community aiming to overcome the challenges of manual trace links maintenance process. In these studies, the trace links results generated by an automated trace recovery approach are presented either in a bland textual matrix format (e.g., tabular format) or two-dimensional graphical formats (e.g. tree view, hierarchical leaf node). Therefore, it is challenging for software engineers to explore the inter-relationships between various artifacts at once (e.g., which test cases and source code files/methods are related to a particular requirement). In this position paper, we propose a hierarchical trace map visualization technique to explore inter-relationships between various artifacts at once naturally and intuitively.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/ICSME.2019.00059
2019 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution (ICSME)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Traceability, Information Retrieval, Visualization
Change impact analysis,Software engineering,Systems engineering,Computer science,Visualization,Source code,Software,Test case,Software maintenance,Traceability,Tree view
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1063-6773
978-1-7281-3095-8
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
13
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Thazin Win Win Aung111.02
Huan Huo23510.00
Yulei Sui332933.34