Traceclipse

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.

Labeling Source Code with Metadata: A Survey and Taxonomy

“…Stacksplorer [21] visualizes method's callers in a column on the left of the code editor view, callees in the right one. ConcernMapper [14] eMoose [15] Pollicino [16] SE-Editor [17] Spotlight [18] TagSEA [19] DepDigger [12] RegViz [20] Stacksplorer [21] Traceclipse [22] TraceME [9] GUITA [23] Impromptu HUD [11] in situ profiler [1] Senseo [13] sparklines [24] CnP [25] HeatMaps [26] iTrace [8] Deep Intellisense [27] Miler [28] Rationalizer [29] 101companies [30] Code Bubbles [31] CoderChrome [10] Graphical overlays may be shown to visually connect the current method definition with the left column and method calls in the source code view to items in the right column. Traceclipse [22] and TraceME [9] are traceability management recovery tools.…”

“…Often the target artifact is source code, just as in the case of source code labeling. Two traceability tools, Traceclipse [22] and TraceME [9], were included in this mapping study.…”