Visualizing Traceability Information with iTrace

Iván Santiago, Juan M. Vara, Valeria de Castro, Esperanza Marcos

2014

Abstract

The key role of models in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) provides a new landscape for dealing with traceability. However, despite the certain maturity reached by some MDE tools, providing efficient views of traceability data is still in its early stages. To contribute in this direction, this work introduces the visualization mechanisms provided by iTrace, a framework for the management of traceability in MDE projects. In particular, a multipanel editor for trace models supports the low-level edition of traceability data whereas different dashboards provide high-level views of such data. Both proposals are illustrated by means of a running example.

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Santiago I., M. Vara J., de Castro V. and Marcos E. (2014). Visualizing Traceability Information with iTrace . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-030-7, pages 5-15. DOI: 10.5220/0004865400050015


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@conference{enase14,
author={Iván Santiago and Juan M. Vara and Valeria de Castro and Esperanza Marcos},
title={Visualizing Traceability Information with iTrace},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2014},
pages={5-15},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004865400050015},
isbn={978-989-758-030-7},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Visualizing Traceability Information with iTrace
SN - 978-989-758-030-7
AU - Santiago I.
AU - M. Vara J.
AU - de Castro V.
AU - Marcos E.
PY - 2014
SP - 5
EP - 15
DO - 10.5220/0004865400050015