Traceability-Driven System Development and its Application to Automotive System Development

Abstract

In these days systems are increasingly complex and customer requirements are constantly changing. So, traceability becomes more important than ever before because the quality of impact analysis is one of key players to shorten development time and keep quality of systems. But, the creation and maintenance of the traceability are mundane and error-prone tasks even if a tool is employed. So, this paper introduces the traceability-driven system development to address the problems of traceability management. In the approach, to address domain-specific needs, both development artifacts and traceability are modeled using metamodel. Thus, metamodel guides the creation and maintenance of artifacts and enforces the traceability up-to-date. Also, the paper shows the application of the approach to automotive system development.