Software traceability: A roadmap

Handbook of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering: Vol 3: Recent Advances

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 395-428

  Spanoudakis, George ^a   Zisman, Andrea ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deployment of traceability; Representation and maintenance of traceability; Software development process; Software traceability; Traceability relations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH; INTEGRATION TESTING; MAINTENANCE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE TESTING;

DEPLOYMENT OF TRACEABILITY; REPRESENTATION AND MAINTENANCE OF TRACEABILITY; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS; SOFTWARE TRACEABILITY; TRACEABILITY RELATIONS;

LIFE CYCLE;

EID: 84968906653     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1142/9789812775245_0014     Document Type: Chapter

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