STRADA: A Tool for Scenario-based Feature-to-Code Trace Detection and Analysis (Tool Demonstration)

Alexander Egyed; Gernot Binder; Paul Grünbacher

STRADA: A Tool for Scenario-based Feature-to-Code Trace Detection and Analysis (Tool Demonstration)

Alexander Egyed, Gernot Binder, Paul Grünbacher

Institute of Software Systems Engineering

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Abstract

Software engineers frequently struggle with understanding the relationships between the source code of a system and its requirements or high-level features. These relationships are commonly referred to as trace links. The creation and maintenance of trace links is a largely manual, time-consuming, and error-prone process. This paper presents STRADA (Scenario-based TRAce Detection and Analysis) a tool that helps software engineers explore traces links to source code through testing. While testing is predominantly done to ensure the correctness of a software system, STRADA demonstrates a vital secondary benefit: by executing source code during testing it can be linked to requirements and features, thus establishing traceability automatically.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ICSE'07: 29th Int. Conference on Software Engineering, Minneapolis, 2007 (accepted for publication)
Number of pages	2
Publication status	Published - 2007

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102022 Software development

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