Interactive Traceability Querying and Visualization for Coping With Development Complexity
This is an incremental position paper targeting software engineering stakeholders to improve traceability utilization.
The paper addresses the problem of practitioners not using available requirements traceability information due to development complexity, proposing an integrated approach with interactive queries and context-specific visualizations to make this information more accessible and task-relevant.
Requirements traceability can in principle support stakeholders coping with rising development complexity. However, studies showed that practitioners rarely use available traceability information after its initial creation. In the position paper for the Dagstuhl seminar 1242, we argued that a more integrated approach allowing interactive traceability queries and context-specific traceability visualizations is needed to let practitioner access and use valuable traceability information. The information retrieved via traceability can be very specific to a current task of a stakeholder, abstracting from everything that is not required to solve the task.