Context Software requirements are often not set in concrete at the start of a software
development project; and requirements changes become necessary and sometimes …

Requirements traceability enables software engineers to trace a requirement from its
emergence to its fulfillment. In this paper we examine requirements traceability definitions …

This paper addresses the issues related to improving the overall quality of the dynamic
candidate link generation for the requirements tracing process for verification and validation …

The main drawback of existing software artifact management systems is the lack of
automatic or semi-automatic traceability link generation and maintenance. We have …

Engineers in large-scale software development have to manage large amounts of
information, spread across many artifacts. Several researchers have proposed expressing …

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

Traceability of software artefacts has been recognized as an important factor for supporting
various activities in the software system development process. In general, the objective of …

Software transparency is a new and important concern that software developers must deal
with. As society moves towards increased automation, if citizens wish to exercise their right …

Software development artifacts-such as model descriptions, diagrammatic languages,
abstract (formal) specifications, and source code-are highly interrelated where changes in …

Software product line (SPL) engineering is a recent approach to software development
where a set of software products are derived for a well defined target application domain …