Requirements Traceability: A Systematic Review and Industry Case Study
by R. Torkar, T. Gorschek, R. Feldt, M. Svahnberg, U. Akbar Raja and K. Kamran
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Requirements traceability enables software engineers to trace a requirement from its emergence to its fulfillment. In this paper we examine requirements traceability definitions, challenges, tools and techniques, by the use of a systematic review performing an exhaustive search through the years 1997--2007. We present a number of common definitions, challenges, available tools and techniques (presenting empirical evidence when found), while complementing the results and analysis with a static validation in industry through a series of interviews.
Bibtex
@Article{Torkar2011ReqTraceability,
author = "Richard Torkar and Tony Gorschek and Robert Feldt and Mikael Svahnberg and Uzair Akbar Raja and Kashif Kamran",
title = "Requirements traceability: {A} systematic review and industry case study",
year = "2012",
month = "",
journal = "Int. Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (IJSEKE)",
volume = "22",
issue = "3",
pages = "1-49",
publisher = "",
keywords = "Requirements Engineering; Traceability; Empirical study",
keywords = "Industrial case study",
doi = "10.1142/S0218194012005846",
url = "http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~feldt/publications/torkar_2011_ijseke_req_traceability.html"
}