Managing Traceability Information Models: Not such a simple task after all?
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Date
2020
Authors
Maro, Salome
Steghofer, Jan-Philipp
Knauss, Eric
Horkoff, Jennifer
Kasauli, Rashidah
Wohlrab, Rebekka
Lysemose Korsgaard, Jesper
Wartenberg, Florian
Jørgen Strøm, Niels
Alexandersson, Ruben
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Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
IEEE Software
Abstract
Practitioners are poorly supported by the scientific literature when managing
traceability information models (TIMs), which capture the structure and semantics of trace links.
In practice, companies manage their TIMs in very different ways, even in cases where companies
share many similarities. We present our findings from an in-depth focus group about TIM
management with three different systems engineering companies. We find that the concrete
needs of the companies as well as challenges such as scale and workflow integration are not
considered by existing scientific work. We thus issue a call-to-arms for the requirements
engineering and software and systems traceability communities, the two main communities for
traceability research, to refocus their work on these practical problems.
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Keywords
Traceability, Information Models, Task
Citation
Maro, S., Steghofer, J. P., Knauss, E., Horkoff, J., Kasauli, R., Wohlrab, R., ... & Alexandersson, R. (2020). Managing traceability information models: Not such a simple task after all?. IEEE Software, 38(5), 101-109. DOI 10.1109/MS.2020.3020651