Recovering and using use-case-diagram-to-source-code traceability links
Mark Grechanik, Kathryn S. McKinley, Dewayne E. Perry · 2007
Use case diagrams (UCDs) are widely used to describe requirements and desired functionality of software products. However, UCDs are loosely linked to source code, and maintaining traces between the source code and elements of UCDs is a manual, tedious, and laborious process. These traces help programmers to understand code that they maintain and evolve.