Customizing Traceability Links for the UnifiedProcess

摘要

Traceability links are generally recognised as helpful means for improving the effectiveness of evolutionary development processes. However, their practical usage in analysis and design is still unsatisfying, especially due to the high effort required for creation, maintenance and verification of the links, and due to lacking or missing methods and tools for their management. In this paper a concept for the systematic management of traceability is introduced, adapted for the and integrated into the Unified Process as one of the widely accepted software development methods. As an extension, requirements templates are applied to facilitate a tool supported analysis of natural language texts in use case descriptions. Template-based analyses enable a determination of types of terms and a check of their correct application as well as a recognition of implicit connections between development artefacts. A rule set is defined as a first step towards a powerful support of traceability handling. In the ongoing project the rule set is enhanced by heuristics and semantic-based rules to a whole framework of methods and rules.