Automated traceability analysis for UML model refinements

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 512-527

  Briand, Lionel C ^b   Labiche, Yvan ^a   Yue, Tao ^a  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Impact analysis; OCL; Refinement; Traceability link; UML

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING;

IMPACT ANALYSIS; OCL; REFINEMENT; TRACEABILITY LINK; UML;

UNIFIED MODELING LANGUAGE;

EID: 56349143469     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infsof.2008.06.002     Document Type: Article

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