Traceability maintenance: factors and guidelines
Salome Maro, Anthony Anjorin, Rebekka Wohlrab, Jan-Philipp Steghöfer · 2016
Traceability is an important concern for numerous software engineering activities. Establishing traceability links is a challenging and cost-intensive task, which is uneconomical without suitable strategies for maintaining high link quality. Current approaches to Traceability Management (TM), however, often make important assumptions and choices without ensuring that the consequences and implications for traceability maintenance are feasible and desirable in practice.