A Survey-driven Feature Model for Software Traceability Approaches

Edouard R. Batot, Sébastien Gérard, Jordi Cabot

Abstract: Traceability is the capability to represent, understand and analyze the relationships between software artefacts. Traceability is at the core of many software engineering activities. This is a blessing in disguise as traceability research is scattered among various research subfields, which impairs a global view and integration of the different innovations around the recording, identification, evaluation and management of traces. This also limits the adoption of traceability solutions in industry.