SUPORTE A RASTREABILIDADE NO DESENVOLVIMENTO DE SOFTWARE DIRIGIDO A MODELOS

Abstract

Traceability was conceived as a possible solution for one of the main problems in the software development process: conformity assurance between software artifacts and their requisites. In the field of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) "traces", traceability links between the artifacts, register a link between a group of input model elements and a group of output model elements. Such link is related to the model transformation specification that associates those groups. Under this view, a number of researches have investigated a way to correctly explore traceability, so as to improve the MDE process quality. This article presents a review on traceability through model-driven approaches as well as an analysis on the support provided by the Atlas Transformation Language (ATL). Several limitations related to ATL’s traceability data recovery were identified and possible solutions were proposed. Index Terms - traceability, model transformation, model driven development, Atlas Transformation Language.