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Traceclipse: an eclipse plug-in for traceability link recovery and management

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Malcom Gethers,

Denys PoshyvanykAuthors Info & Claims

TEFSE '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering

Pages 24 - 30

https://doi.org/10.1145/1987856.1987862

Published: 23 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Traceability link recovery is an active research area in software engineering with a number of open research questions and challenges, due to the substantial costs and challenges associated with software maintenance. We propose Traceclipse, an Eclipse plug-in that integrates some similar characteristics of traceability link recovery techniques in one easy-to-use suite. The tool enables software developers to specify, view, and manipulate traceability links within Eclipse and it provides an API through which recovery techniques may be added, specified, and run within an integrated development environment. The paper also presents initial case studies aimed at evaluating the proposed plug-in.

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Traceclipse: an eclipse plug-in for traceability link recovery and management
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software post-development issues
      1. Documentation

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TEFSE '11: Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Traceability in Emerging Forms of Software Engineering

May 2011

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ISBN:9781450305891

DOI:10.1145/1987856

General Chair:
Denys Poshyvanyk
The College of William and Mary, U.S.A.
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Program Chairs:
Massimiliano Di Penta
University of Sannio, Italy
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Huzefa Kagdi
Winston-Salem State University, U.S.A.

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