Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA
Abstract
In the area of Software Engineering, traceability is defined as the capability to track requirements, their
evolution and transformation in different components related to engineering process, as well as the management
of the relationships between those components. However the current state of the art in traceability does not keep
in mind many of the elements that compose a product, specially those created before requirements arise, nor the
appropriated use of traceability to manage the knowledge underlying in order to be handled by other
organizational or engineering processes. In this work we describe the architecture of a reference model that
establishes a set of definitions, processes and models which allow a proper management of traceability and
further uses of it, in a wider context than the one related to software development
