Requirements Traceability: A Systematic Review and Industry Case Study
| Document type: | Journal Articles |
|---|---|
| Article type: | Review |
| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
| Author(s): | Richard Torkar, Tony Gorschek, Robert Feldt, Mikael Svahnberg, Raja Uzair Akbar, Kashif Kamran |
| Title: | Requirements Traceability: A Systematic Review and Industry Case Study |
| Journal: | International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering |
| Year: | 2012 |
| Volume: | 22 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pagination: | 385-433 |
| ISSN: | 0218-1940 |
| Publisher: | World Scientific |
| URI/DOI: | 10.1142/S021819401250009X |
| ISI number: | 000305905400005 |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Computing (Sektionen för datavetenskap och kommunikation) School of Computing S-371 79 Karlskrona +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.bth.se/com |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | 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. |
| Subject: | Software Engineering\General |
| Keywords: | Requirements traceability, systematic review, case study |
