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Jane Cleland-Huang, Raffaella Settimi, Eli Romanova,Brian Berenbach, Stephen Clark
 
 Traceability
Why traceability is a big issue
Standards Require it
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Sarbanes-Oxley Act
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IEEE Std 830-1998- “SRS must be traceable”
Traditionally…
Stored in spread sheets, text files or RMsoftware
Ad hoc, inconsistent and incomplete
Tend to deteriorate as time pressure increases
Thus need for automated solution
 
Best Practices—TraceabilityEnvironment
Trace for a purpose
Can import legacy documents but best is whenstakeholders identify
Define a suitable trace granularity
i.e. for UML class diagram generate a trace atpackage, class, or method level
Alexander Egyerd et. al. evaluated economic valueof low level tracing
Tenfold increase of granularity led to a two foldimprovement of precision
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