Traceability in Collaborative Systems Development from Lifecycle Perspective

Abstract The aim of this position paper is to discuss the features of,state-of-the-art and outstanding issues of the traceability between,product fragments in collaborative system development. A lot of research has been done in the pre-traceability area. Recently, researchers’ attitudes towards interrelation of requirements,and architecture elements have increased. Several approaches,to tackle this problem have been proposed. Nevertheless, to the author’s knowledge, the solution for traceability between various product fragments through the lifetime of the system does not exist. Central repository for the traceability relationship and distributed repositories for the model,fragments storage and interchange between developers are proposed. Usage of ontology is proposed,to interrelate different product fragments and establish the traceability relations between them.