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Automated Techniques for Capturing Custom Traceability Links Across Heterogeneous Artifacts

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Software traceability is becoming an increasingly important facet of software engineering, especially as development projects become more distributed, decentralized, and dependent on third-party software. This chapter illustrates how traceability links can be automatically captured in situ, while software engineers perform their development tasks, through the use of specialized open hypermedia adapters and custom rules. Focusing on the mobile phone case study, we demonstrate how users can integrate their custom filters, heuristics, and relationship types, as well as their existing development tools, into our traceability system. We also show how our traceability link-capture technique can be incorporated with search tools and how traceability links can be effectively maintained. We provide practical usage scenarios and brief technical discussions for each of these capabilities.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank S. Cutler, D. Kwok, C. Leu, A. Marron, J. Meevasin, H. Pham, D. Purpura, and A. Rahnemoon for tool development. This research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation IIS-0808783 and CCF-0917129.

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    Hazeline U. Asuncion

  2. Institute for Software Research, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

    Richard N. Taylor

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Asuncion, H.U., Taylor, R.N. (2012). Automated Techniques for Capturing Custom Traceability Links Across Heterogeneous Artifacts. 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_6

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