Fine Grained Traceability for an MDE Approach of Embedded System Conception
Flori Glitia, Anne Etien, Cédric Dumoulin · 2008
Abstract. MDE approaches are wide-spreading more and more. They allow the generation of code from high level abstraction models, using intermediary models. A development system based on an MDE approach often involves several model transformations composing one or more transformation chains. In order to deal with the complexity in such a system, it is necessary to introduce a traceability mechanism helping both the users and the developers keeping track of elements. Several traceability mechanisms and semantics have already been defined, but they are not appropriate to trace fine grained elements, like properties. In this paper, we have adapted existing traceability mechanisms in order to manage a richer semantics for traceability. We have implemented a generic and partially reusable traceability solution tested in Gaspard transformation chains. 1