An End-To-End Industrial Software Traceability Tool

Student: Hazeline Asuncion, UC Irvine/ISR

Industry Collaborator: Frédéric François, Wonderware

Advisor: Richard N. Taylor, UC Irvine/ISR

Abstract: Traceability is an important aspect of software development that is often required by various professional standards and government agencies. Yet current industrial approaches do not typically address end-to-end traceability. Moreover, many industry projects become entangled in process overhead and fail to derive much benefit from current traceability solutions. This poster presents a successful end-to-end software traceability tool developed at Wonderware, a software sales and development company and a business unit of Invensys Systems, Inc. We focus on both requirements traceability and process traceability to achieve comprehensive traceability across the software development life cycle. We offer new perspectives in analyzing the traceability problem as well as general traceability guidelines.

Bio:

Hazeline Asuncion is a Ph.D student in the area of Software Engineering. She received both her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Computer Science from UCI. She has worked in the industry in a variety of software-related roles. In her internship at Wonderware Corporation, she examined the software traceability problem in the context of a mid-sized globally distributed software development company. Her advisor is Richard N. Taylor and her research interests are traceability, workflows, and software architectures.

Frédéric François is a Domain Architect in charge of Visualization and Usability at Wonderware Corporation in Lake Forest, an Invensys Company. He has been working for 15 years in the design of user experiences for industrial and medical software applications. He holds a Diplôme d’Ingénieur d’Etat from ESIEE (Ecole Supérieure d’Ingénieurs en Electronique et Electrotechnique) Paris, France, with majors in Production Systems Engineering and Computer Science. He is the current chair of the local OCCHI, a Special Interest Group from the ACM in Human Computer Interaction.