Grand Challenges, Benchmarks, and TraceLab: Developing Infrastructure for the Software Traceability Research Community

Authors: Jane Cleland-Huang, Adam Czauderna, Alex Dekhtyar, Olly Gotel, Jane Huffman Hayes, Ed Keenan, Greg Leach, Jonathan Maletic, Denys Poshyvanyk, Yonghee Shin, Andrea Zisman, Giuliano Antoniol, Brian Berenbach, Alexander Egyed and Patrick Maeder

The challenges of implementing successful and cost-e ective traceability have created a compelling research agenda that has addressed a broad range of traceability related issues, ranging from qualitative studies of traceability users in industry to very technical and quantitative studies. Unfortunately,
advances are hampered by the significant time and effort that new researchers must invest to establish their research environments. In addition, existing researchers face challenges in reconstructing and modifying existing experiments, as well as in comparing new results against existing baselines. Members of the Center of Excellence for SoftwareTraceability (CoEST) have been working to address these
issues through identifying the Grand Challenges of Traceability, developing benchmarks, and constructing TraceLab,an extensible and scalable visual environment for designing and executing a broad range of traceability experiments.

 

 

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