In large-scale software development projects, change impact analysis (CIA) plays an
important role in controlling software design evolution. Identifying and accessing the effects …

Links are an essential feature of the World Wide Web, and source code repositories are no
exception. However, despite their many undisputed benefits, links can suffer from decay …

Traceability is crucial for many activities in software and systems engineering including
monitoring the development progress, and proving compliance with standards. In practice …

Traceability, the ability to trace relevant software artifacts to support reasoning about the
quality of the software and its development process, plays a crucial role in requirements and …

Software requirements traceability is a critical component of the software engineering
process, enabling activities such as requirements validation, compliance verification, and …

Safety Assurance Cases (SACs) are increasingly used to guide and evaluate the safety of
software-intensive systems. They are used to construct a hierarchically organized set of …

Requirements Satisfaction Assessment (RSA) evaluates whether the set of design elements
linked to a single requirement provide sufficient coverage of that requirement--typically …

Requirements traceability is an important activity to reach an effective requirements
management method in the requirements engineering. Requirement-to-Code Traceability …

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Researchers have proposed numerous tools, methods, and techniques for establishing and
maintaining software traceability. Despite its acknowledged importance, researchers argue …