Towards an Explicit Bidirectional Requirement-to-Code Traceability Meta-model for the PASSI Methodology

Mihoub Mazouz, Farid Mokhati, Mourad Badri

2015

Abstract

Traceability plays an important role in the development of computing systems, specifically, the complex ones. It provides several benefits to stakeholders and developers during the different phases of the systems development life cycle, including verification & validation and maintenance. Unfortunately, there are very few works in literature addressing the concept of traceability in multi-agent systems development methodologies. Having an incremental and iterative process, the well-known PASSI (Process for Agent Societies Specification and Implementation) methodology needs an explicit traceability in order to facilitate the understanding of the MAS under development and to better manage the changes occurring during the development process. In addition, it can lead to a requirement-based verification & validation. In this paper, we propose a new traceability meta-model for the PASSI methodology by introducing explicit traceability links of functional requirements through the various phases of the development life cycle.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mazouz M., Mokhati F. and Badri M. (2015). Towards an Explicit Bidirectional Requirement-to-Code Traceability Meta-model for the PASSI Methodology . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-073-4, pages 203-209. DOI: 10.5220/0005249102030209

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart15,
author={Mihoub Mazouz and Farid Mokhati and Mourad Badri},
title={Towards an Explicit Bidirectional Requirement-to-Code Traceability Meta-model for the PASSI Methodology},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2015},
pages={203-209},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005249102030209},
isbn={978-989-758-073-4},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Towards an Explicit Bidirectional Requirement-to-Code Traceability Meta-model for the PASSI Methodology
SN - 978-989-758-073-4
AU - Mazouz M.
AU - Mokhati F.
AU - Badri M.
PY - 2015
SP - 203
EP - 209
DO - 10.5220/0005249102030209