An Approach for Discovering Traceability Links between Regulatory Documents and Source Code Through User-Interface Labels

摘要

In application domains that are regulated, software vendors must maintaintraceability links between the regulatory items and the code base implementingthem. In this paper, we present a traceability approach based on the intuitionthat the regulatory documents and the user-interface of the correspondingsoftware applications are very close. First, they use the same terminology.Second, most important regulatory pieces of information appear in the graphicaluser-interface because the end-users in those application domains care aboutthe regulation (by construction). We evaluate our approach in the domain ofgreen building. The evaluation involves a domain expert, lead architect of acommercial product within this area. The evaluation shows that the recoveredtraceability links are accurate.