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Tool Support for Implementation and Analysis of Traceability Structures
Author(s) -
Riddle Steve,
Saeed Amer
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1999.tb00339.x
Subject(s) - traceability , requirements traceability , computer science , automation , consistency (knowledge bases) , process (computing) , software engineering , systems engineering , completeness (order theory) , key (lock) , risk analysis (engineering) , requirements analysis , process management , software , engineering , requirement , computer security , artificial intelligence , mechanical engineering , medicine , mathematical analysis , mathematics , programming language , operating system
Traceability has become established as a key subject of requirements engineering research. Our research has resulted in the proposal of information structures to record information in support of the early stages of the software development process, and the establishment of a traceability procedure for the development and assessment of safety critical systems. For this procedure to be feasible for large‐scale systems, there is a need to represent, structure and analyse the consistency and completeness of large amounts of disparate information. It is thus essential to provide adequate tool support. In this paper we address automation of the basic activities of the procedure, and investigate some candidate tools which can provide some or all of the features required by automation.