This workshop is intended to be a working event focused on understanding and defining the foundations for consistency and change management of software systems within the scope of artifact-to-artifact (model-to-model) traceability. The workshop will explore topics related to:
- Theory of software traceability;
- Traceability between artifacts and processes;
- The semantics of traceability links;
- Recovery of traceability links;
- Visualization of traceability links;
- Traceability in model-driven development;
- Traceability in domain-specific languages;
- Interoperable approaches to support traceability;
- Human aspects of traceability management;
- Traceability in emerging forms of software engineering including product lines, frameworks, components, services, etc.;
- Empirical studies on traceability.
Specific workshop goals include:
- Broadening awareness within the software engineering community of the potential for the application of traceability;
- Facilitating the exchange of ideas and interaction between international researchers;
- Defining open and key research problems faced in realizing usable tools/approach for traceability recovery and management;
- Constructing a foundation of materials for future research on traceability.