CPA-SEL-T: Collaborative Research: Traceability+: a Service Oriented Framework to Support Value-Added Software Traceability

建议：P0811140/P0810924/P0811021标题：Traceability+：一个支持增值软件可追溯性的面向服务的框架PI：Jane Hayes，Jane Huang和Jonathan MaleticTraceability在软件系统的开发和保证中扮演着重要的角色，这些软件系统渗透到我们的社会中。它通过支持变更影响评估、应用程序的重新设计和其他关键的软件工程活动，帮助确保构建后的系统正确地实现所有需求。虽然以前的工作集中在提供点解决方案，解决特定的可追溯性问题，这项研究将开发一个新的，强大的可追溯性模型，Traceability+，将提供增值的可追溯性服务，旨在支持不同的利益相关者，因为他们执行关键的软件工程活动。为了实现这一目标，研究人员将开发一种新的可追溯性查询语言和相关查询机制，确定利益相关者的可追溯性相关需求，开发可追溯性服务以满足这些需求，建立可追溯性任务和相关查询的知识库，并处理各种数据格式。 如果成功，这项研究可以改变社区？的可追溯性的理解和它在软件工程生命周期中的好处。 通过让行业人员作为项目高级工作人员积极参与，并通过已经建立的软件可追溯性卓越中心，加强了对拟议框架的评估和结果的传播。

Proposals: P0811140/P0810924/P0811021Title: Traceability+: a Service Oriented Framework to Support Value-Added Software TraceabilityPIs: Jane Hayes, Jane Huang, and Jonathan MaleticTraceability plays an important role in the development and assurance of software systems that permeate our society. It helps to assure that an as-built system correctly implements all requirements by supporting change impact assessment, re-engineering of applications, and other critical software engineering activities. Although previous work has focused on delivering point solutions that address specific traceability issues, this research will develop a new, powerful traceability model, Traceability+, that will deliver value-added traceability services designed to support diverse stakeholders as they perform critical software engineering activities. To accomplish this, the investigators will develop a new traceability query language and associated query mechanism, identify stakeholders' traceability-related needs, develop traceability services to meet those needs, build a knowledge base of traceability tasks and related queries, and handle varied data formats. If successful, the research could transform the community?s understanding of traceability and its benefits across the software engineering lifecycle. The evaluation of the proposed framework and dissemination of results is enhanced by having industry personnel actively participate as senior staff on the project and by an already-established Center of Excellence for Software Traceability.