Poirot: A Distributed Tool Supporting Enterprise-Wide Automated Traceability

Author

Lin, Jun ; Lin, Chan Chou ; Cleland-Huang, Jane ; Settimi, Raffaella ; Amaya, Joseph ; Bedford, Grace ; Berenbach, Brian ; Khadra, Oussama ; Duan, Chuan ; Zou, Xuchang

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci., DePaul Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

11-15 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

363

Lastpage

364

Abstract

Poirot is a Web-based tool supporting traceability of distributed heterogeneous software artifacts. A probabilistic network model is used to generate traces between requirements, design elements, code and other artifacts stored in distributed 3^rd party case tools such as DOORS, rational rose, and source code repositories. The tool is designed with extensibility in mind, so that additional artifact types and 3^rd party case tools can be easily added. Trace results are displayed in both a textual and visual format. This paper briefly describes the underlying probabilistic model, and the user interface of the tool, and then discusses Poirot´s deployment and use in an industrial setting

Keywords

Internet; program diagnostics; programming environments; DOORS; Poirot; Web-based tool supporting traceability; distributed heterogeneous software artifacts; probabilistic network model; rational rose repository; source code repository;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Requirements Engineering, 14th IEEE International Conference

Conference_Location

Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN

ISSN

1090-705X

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2555-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RE.2006.48

Filename

1704104