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The software artefacts at different levels of abstraction and at different stages of the development process are closely inter-related. For developers to stay in control of the development process, traceability information must be maintained. In this paper, we present the engineering of the Traceability Metamodelling Language (TML), a metamodelling language dedicated to defining traceability metamodels. We present the abstract syntax of the language and its semantics, which are defined using a translational approach. Finally, we provide a case study that demonstrates the construction of a traceability metamodel that captures traceability information between two metamodels using TML.
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Drivalos, N., Kolovos, D.S., Paige, R.F., Fernandes, K.J. (2009). Engineering a DSL for Software Traceability. In: Gašević, D., Lämmel, R., Van Wyk, E. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5452. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00434-6_10
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