A Formal Representation of Platform Feature-to-Requirement Traceability for Software Product Line Development

2014 IEEE 38th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference Pub Date : 2014-07-21 DOI:10.1109/COMPSAC.2014.29

Sungwon Kang, Jingyu Kim, Sungju Kang, S. Eom

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Traceability enables the developer to keep track of changes in software development artifacts. Compared to that of single product development, traceability management in software product line development is much more complicated as it has to deal with traceability of individual products through the commonality and variability of the families of products. However, the existing traceability research treated traceability for families of products in an ad-hoc way and did not adequately address the relationship between traceability of domain engineering artifacts and that of application engineering artifacts. In this paper, we develop a formal representation that represents traceability between features and requirements at platform level. Also we present a procedure for constructing platform traceability from the trace abilities of a family of products. The proposed traceability representation and construction can be used as a basis for automated management of software product line trace abilities and for traceability representation and construction between artifacts of other stages of software product line.

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软件产品线开发中平台特性到需求可追溯性的形式化表示

可追溯性使开发人员能够跟踪软件开发工件中的更改。与单个产品开发相比，软件产品线开发中的可追溯性管理要复杂得多，因为它必须通过产品族的共性和可变性来处理单个产品的可追溯性。然而，现有的可追溯性研究以一种特殊的方式处理产品族的可追溯性，没有充分处理领域工程工件和应用工程工件的可追溯性之间的关系。在本文中，我们开发了一个形式化的表示，它表示平台级别的功能和需求之间的可追溯性。此外，我们还提出了一个从一系列产品的跟踪能力构建平台可追溯性的过程。建议的可追溯性表示和构造可以用作软件产品线跟踪能力的自动化管理的基础，以及用于软件产品线其他阶段的工件之间的可追溯性表示和构造的基础。

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2014 IEEE 38th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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