An XML based approach to support the evolution of model-to-model traceability links

Proceedings - The 3rd ACM Int. Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering, TEFSE 2005, Held with the 20th IEEE/ACM Int. Conf. Automated Software Engineering, ASE2005

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 67-72

  Maletic, Jonathan I ^a   Collard, Michael L ^a   Simoes, Bonita ^a  

^a KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

maintenance; software evolution; traceability

Indexed keywords

GRAPH-THEORETIC; MAINTENANCE SOFTWARE; SOURCE CODES; SYSTEM MODELS; TRACEABILITY LINKS; VERSIONING; XML TECHNOLOGY;

BIOLOGY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; GRAPH THEORY; MARKUP LANGUAGES; MODEL STRUCTURES; XML;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 77953968051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1107656.1107671     Document Type: Conference Paper

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