TY - JOUR
T1 - Preliminary Systematic Literature Review of Software and Systems Traceability
AU - Kaiya, Haruhiko
AU - Sato, Ryohei
AU - Hazeyama, Atsuo
AU - Ogata, Shinpei
AU - Okubo, Takao
AU - Tanaka, Takafumi
AU - Yoshioka, Nobukazu
AU - Washizaki, Hironori
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 16H02804, 15K00109 and 15H02686. References
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PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Traceability is important knowledge for improving the artifacts of software and systems and processes related to them. Even in a single system, various kinds of artifacts exist. Various kinds of processes also exist, and each of them relates to different kinds of artifacts. Traceability over them has thus large diversity. In addition, developers in each process have different types of purposes to improve their artifacts and process. Research results in traceability have to be categorized and analyzed so that such a developer can choose one of them to achieve his/her purposes. In this paper, we report on the results of Systematic Literature Review (SLR) related to software and systems traceability. Our SLR is preliminary one because we only analyzed articles in ACM digital library and IEEE computer society digital library. We found several interesting trends in traceability research. For example, researches related to creating or maintaining traceability are larger than those related to using it or thinking its strategy. Various kinds of traceability purposes are addressed or assumed in many researches, but some researches do not specify purposes. Purposes related to changes and updates are dominant.
AB - Traceability is important knowledge for improving the artifacts of software and systems and processes related to them. Even in a single system, various kinds of artifacts exist. Various kinds of processes also exist, and each of them relates to different kinds of artifacts. Traceability over them has thus large diversity. In addition, developers in each process have different types of purposes to improve their artifacts and process. Research results in traceability have to be categorized and analyzed so that such a developer can choose one of them to achieve his/her purposes. In this paper, we report on the results of Systematic Literature Review (SLR) related to software and systems traceability. Our SLR is preliminary one because we only analyzed articles in ACM digital library and IEEE computer society digital library. We found several interesting trends in traceability research. For example, researches related to creating or maintaining traceability are larger than those related to using it or thinking its strategy. Various kinds of traceability purposes are addressed or assumed in many researches, but some researches do not specify purposes. Purposes related to changes and updates are dominant.
KW - ACM
KW - IEEE CPS
KW - Software
KW - Systematic Literature Review
KW - Systems Traceability
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U2 - 10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.152
DO - 10.1016/j.procs.2017.08.152
M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85032357623
SN - 1877-0509
VL - 112
SP - 1141
EP - 1150
JO - Procedia Computer Science
JF - Procedia Computer Science
T2 - 21st International Conference on Knowledge - Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2017
Y2 - 6 September 2017 through 8 September 2017
ER -