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This chapter focuses on traceability in the final phases of the software life cycle: between the development and run-time phases. Between these phases, an abstraction gap exists: the various high level abstractions used during development are lost in the run-time environment. This often makes inspection of the complex, synthetic run-time structure impossible. We present results in the context of the debugging of aspect oriented software development. The compilation process of aspect oriented programs is inherently complex and create a large abstraction gap. In this chapter, we describe an approach for the development of debugging tools that bridge can use tracing information to bridge the abstraction gap.
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De Borger, W., Lagaisse, B., Joosen, W. (2012). Traceability Between Run-Time and Development Time Abstractions. In: Cleland-Huang, J., Gotel, O., Zisman, A. (eds) Software and Systems Traceability. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2239-5_13
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