Architecture-centric Traceability for Stakeholders (ACTS)

Student: Hazel Asuncion, UC Irvine/ISR

Collaborator: David Purpura, UC Irvine

Advisor: Richard N. Taylor, UC Irvine/ISR

Abstract:

Researchers and practitioners alike agree that software traceability is important to software development. Despite its recognized utility, software traceability has largely been infeasible in practice due to the high costs and the low benefits obtained. An analysis of reported difficulties with traceability reveals that interacting factors from the economic, technical, and social perspectives hinder traceability. Motivated by the multi-faceted nature of the traceability problem, we combine architecture-centric stakeholder-driven traceability with open hypermedia, and we use insights from e-Science to guide our approach.

Bio:

Hazeline Asuncion is a Ph.D student in the area of Software Engineering. 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.

David Purpura is a third-year undergraduate Informatics major at the University of California, Irvine. David has been working under the guidance of Hazel Asuncion and Richard Taylor for the past three quarters.