An XML based approach to support the evolution of model-to-model traceability links
Jonathan I. Maletic, Michael L. Collard, Bonita Simoes · 2005
The paper summarizes the authors' current research on supporting model-to-model traceability. The authors present a graph theoretic definition of what they mean by models and traceability links. This definition is realized by the use of XML technologies to represent the models and traceability links. Practical means to represent different types of system models (e.g., source code and design) using XML are discussed. Traceability links are also implemented using XML technologies in an efficient and scalable manner. The evolution of the system, along with the traceability links, is supported by a fine-grained versioning technique. This allows for versioning and differencing of specific elements of the models versus just lines or whole files.