Published

2012-01-01

Towards a framework for improving requirement traceability

Hacia el desarrollo de un marco de trabajo para mejorar la trazabilidad de requisitos

Keywords:

Traceability, software quality, reference model, framework (en)
trazabilidad, calidad de software, modelo de referencia, marco de trabajo (es)

Downloads

Authors

  • Marco Antonio Toranzo Céspedes Universidad Católica del Maule
  • Gilberto Cysneiros Filho Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco
  • Yessica Gómez Universidad Católica del Maule
  • Oscar Rodríguez Mendoza Universidad Autónoma de Chile

Work regarding requirement traceability focuses on programming aspects instead of identifying, analysing and modelling all traceable data in a software project. This paper describes the development of a framework for improving software requirement traceability. The framework consisted of classifying traced information, defining and using relationship types regarding traced information, a set of guidelines for developing a requirements traceability model for a software project and using my management tool (MyMT tool) to support developing a requirement traceability model. A university library management system was used to illustrate applying the framework.

Muchos trabajos de trazabilidad de requisitos están focalizados en aspectos de programación en vez de la identificación, análisis y modelamiento de todas las informaciones trazables de un proyecto de software. Este artículo trata del desarrollo de un marco de trabajo para mejorar la trazabilidad de requisitos de software. El marco de trabajo consiste en la clasificación de las informaciones trazables; la definición y uso de tipos de relaciones entre las informaciones trazables; un conjunto de directrices para elaborar un modelo de trazabilidad de requisitos en un proyecto de software y el desarrollo de la herramienta MyMT (My Management Tool) para apoyar el desarrollo de un modelo de trazabilidad de requisitos. Un sistema universitario de administración de biblioteca es empleado para ilustrar la aplicación del marco de trabajo.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

References

Castro, J., Pinto, R., Castor, A., J Mylopoulos., Requirements traceability in agent oriented software engineering, lecture notes in computer science, LNCS 2603, V. 2603, 2003, Springer-Verlag. pp. 57-72.

Castor, A., Rastreamento de requisitos no proceso de desenvolvimento de software orientado a agentes, MSc thesis, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, 2004.

Cleland-Huang, J., Chang, C., Christensen, M., Event-based traceability for managing evolutionary change, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 2003, N- 9: Vol. 29, pp. 796-810.

Cysneiros, G., Software Traceability for multi-agent system implemented using BDI architecture, DPhil thesis, City University London, London, 2011.

Cysneiros, G., Zisman, A., Traceability and completeness checking for agent-oriented systems, 23rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Technical Track on Agent-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, 2008.

Gotel, O., Finkelstein A., An analysis of the requirements traceability problem. International Conference on Requirements Engineering. - Colorado, USA, IEEE Computer Society, 1994, pp. 94-101.

Gotel, O., Traceability - Problems in a Word. The Newsletter of the Requirements Engineering Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, RQ49, 2008.

Gotel, O., Traceability - Putting the 'y' First. Requirements Quarterly: The Newsletter of the Requirements Engineering, Specialist Group of the British Computer Society, RQ50, 2009.

Humphrey, W., Thomas, W., Reflections on management: how to manage your software projects, your teams, yours boss, and yourself. Addison Wesley, 2010

Pinto, R., Castro, J., Toranzo, M., Requirements Traceability, in International Workshop on Software Engineering for Large-Scale Multi-Agent Systems, 2002, Orlando. http://www.teccomm.les.inf.pucrio.br/selmas2002/. Last consulted: 15/10/2010.

Pinto, R., Castro, J., Tedesco, P., Silva M., Alencar F., A Traceability Reference Model for Agent Oriented Development. Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Software Engineering for Agent-oriented Systems. João Pessoa. pp. 27-38. Paraíba/UFPB, 2007.

Pinto, R., Silva, C., Lima, T., Castro, J., Support for requirement traceability: The Tropos case, XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software - SBES'05, 2005, Uberlândia, Anais do XIX Simpósio Brasileiro de Engenharia de Software - SBES'05. 2005. pp. 40-55.

Ramesh, B., Jarke, M., Towards reference models for requirements traceability, IEEE Transactions on Software Engenieering, Vol. 27, Jan, 2001. pp. 58-93.

Toranzo, M., A Framework para melhorar o rastreamento de requisitos. PhD thesis, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brasil, 2002.

Toranzo, M., Mellon, E., Uma proposta para melhorar o rastreamento de requisitos. Workshop de Engenharia de Requisitos. Valencia, Spain. 2002. pp. 194 -209

Toranzo, M., Mejorando la trazabilidad de requisitos. 8th Workshop Iberoamericano de Ingeniería de Requisitos y Ambientes de Software 2005. Valparaíso, Chile, 2005. pp. 28-42

Villarroel, R., Gómez, Y., Gajardo, R., Rodriguez, O. Implementation of an improvement cycle using the Competisoft methodological framework and the Tutelkan platform. In Proceedings of SCCC'2009. pp.97-104.

Wiegers, K., Software Requirements, Microsoft Press, 2nd edition, 2003

License

Copyright (c) 2012 Marco Antonio Toranzo Céspedes, Gilberto Cysneiros Filho, Yessica Gómez, Oscar Rodríguez Mendoza

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

The authors or holders of the copyright for each article hereby confer exclusive, limited and free authorization on the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's journal Ingeniería e Investigación concerning the aforementioned article which, once it has been evaluated and approved, will be submitted for publication, in line with the following items:

1.    The version which has been corrected according to the evaluators' suggestions will be remitted and it will be made clear whether the aforementioned article is an unedited document regarding which the rights to be authorized are held and total responsibility will be assumed by the authors for the content of the work being submitted to Ingeniería e Investigación, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and third-parties;

2.    The authorization conferred on the journal will come into force from the date on which it is included in the respective volume and issue of Ingeniería e Investigación in the Open Journal Systems and on the journal's main page (https://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/ingeinv), as well as in different databases and indices in which the publication is indexed;

3.    The authors authorize the Universidad Nacional de Colombia's journal Ingeniería e Investigación to publish the document in whatever required format (printed, digital, electronic or whatsoever known or yet to be discovered form) and authorize Ingeniería e Investigación to include the work in any indices and/or search engines deemed necessary for promoting its diffusion;

4.    The authors accept that such authorization is given free of charge and they, therefore, waive any right to receive remuneration from the publication, distribution, public communication and any use whatsoever referred to in the terms of this authorization.