Concepts-based traceability: Using experiments to evaluate traceability techniques

Abstract

Knowledge engineering brings direct benefits to software development through the cognitive mapping between user expectations and software solution, checking system consistency and requirements conformance. One of the potential benefits of knowledge representation could be the definition of a standard domain terminology to enforce artifacts traceability. This paper proposes a concepts-based approach to drive traceability by the integration of knowledge engineering activities into the Unified Process. This paper also presents an experiment and its replication to evaluate precision and effort variables from concepts-based traceability and conventional requirements-based traceability techniques. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.