Traceability—the ability to follow the life of software artifacts—is a topic of great interest to
software developers in general, and to requirements engineers and model-driven …

Traceability relationships help stakeholders understand the many associations and
dependencies that exist among software artifacts created during a software development …

Models have been used in various engineering fields to help managing complexity and
represent information in different abstraction levels, according to specific notations and …

This book is about a significant step forward in software development. It brings state-of-the-
art ontology reasoning into mainstream software development and its languages. Ontology …

Requirements traceability is the ability to relate requirements back to stakeholders and
forward to corresponding design artifacts, code, and test cases. Although considerable …

Abstract Model-driven engineering (MDE) involves the construction and manipulation of
many models of different kinds in an engineering process. In principle, models can be used …

In recent years, traceability has been globally accepted as being a key success factor of
software development projects. However, the multitude of different, poorly integrated …

In the world of model-driven engineering (MDE) support for traceability and maintenance of
traceability information is essential. On the one hand, classical traceability approaches for …

Traceability is an important feature in model-driven development. Many research initiatives
are currently investigating how to collect, store and utilize traceability information to improve …

The size and complexity of software systems make integration of the new/modified
requirements to the software system costly and time consuming. The impact of requirements …