Abstract:
Artefact management in a software development
process is a challenging problem. Often there is a wide variety
of artefacts, which are maintained separately within a software
development process, such as requirement specifications,
architectural concerns, design specifications, source codes and
test cases, which are essential to software engineering. Artefact
inconsistency is a major problem since these artefacts evolve at
different rates. Maintaining traceability links among these
artefacts and updating those artefacts accordingly can be a
solution to address artefact inconsistency. There is a need for
establishing these artefact traceability links in semi-automatic
way. Proper management and visualization tool is required for
effective software artefact management in an incremental
software development. We present a prototype tool to establish
artefact traceability links and visualization of those. This
paper describes the research methodology and relevant
research carried out for semi-automatic traceability link
establishment and visualization of software artefacts.
