Transforming trace information in architectural documents into re-usable and effective traceability links

Sharing and Reusing Architectural Knowledge Pub Date : 2011-05-24 DOI:10.1145/1988676.1988685

Mehdi Mirakhorli, J. Cleland-Huang

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Architectural analysis processes, such as the Architecture Trade-off and Analysis Method (ATAM), utilize a scenario based approach to evaluate the extent to which an architectural solution meets a potentially competing set of quality goals. The resulting architectural documents contain a rich set of trace relationships between quality goals, decisions, and architectural elements. Unfortunately this information is not readily accessible for supporting tasks other than initial architectural assessments. In this paper we describe a technique and supporting tools for extracting and generating traceability links from the architectural documents. A specialized Traceability Information Model is used to guide the user through the task of establishing traceability links from design decisions to the architectural elements in which the decision is realized. The retrieved and generated traceability links can then be used to support a far broader set of activities including visualization of design rationale and architectural preservation. We evaluate our approach using a case study of the NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle.

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将体系结构文档中的跟踪信息转换为可重用且有效的跟踪链接

体系结构分析过程，例如体系结构权衡与分析方法(ATAM)，利用基于场景的方法来评估体系结构解决方案满足潜在的竞争质量目标集的程度。生成的体系结构文档包含质量目标、决策和体系结构元素之间的一组丰富的跟踪关系。不幸的是，除了最初的体系结构评估之外，这些信息不容易用于支持任务。在本文中，我们描述了一种技术和支持工具，用于从架构文档中提取和生成可跟踪性链接。一个专门的跟踪信息模型用于指导用户完成建立从设计决策到实现决策的体系结构元素的跟踪链接的任务。然后，检索和生成的可追溯性链接可以用于支持更广泛的活动集，包括设计基本原理的可视化和架构保存。我们用NASA载人探索飞行器的一个案例来评估我们的方法。

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