A Domain-specific Language for Configurable Traceability Analysis

Hendrik Bünder, Christoph Rieger, Herbert Kuchen

2017

Abstract

In safety-critical industries such as the aviation industry or the medical industry traceability is required by law and specific regulations. In addition, process models such as CMMI require traceability information for documentation purposes. Although creating and maintaing so-called traceability information models (TIM) takes a lot of effort, its potential for reporting development progress, supporting project management, and measuring software quality often remains untapped. The domain-specific language presented in this paper builds on an existing traceability solution and allows to define queries, metrics, and rules for company- or project-specific usage. The basis for such an analysis is a query expression to retrieve information from a TIM. Customizable metrics are then defined to compute aggregated values, which are evaluated against company- or project-specific thresholds using the rules part of the domain-specific language. The focus of this paper is to show how the combination of query, metric, and rule expressions is used to define and compute customizable analyses based on individual requirements.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Bünder H., Rieger C. and Kuchen H. (2017). A Domain-specific Language for Configurable Traceability Analysis . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-210-3, pages 374-381. DOI: 10.5220/0006138503740381

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward17,
author={Hendrik Bünder and Christoph Rieger and Herbert Kuchen},
title={A Domain-specific Language for Configurable Traceability Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2017},
pages={374-381},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006138503740381},
isbn={978-989-758-210-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - A Domain-specific Language for Configurable Traceability Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-210-3
AU - Bünder H.
AU - Rieger C.
AU - Kuchen H.
PY - 2017
SP - 374
EP - 381
DO - 10.5220/0006138503740381