Automated Inter-artefact Traceability Establishment for DevOps Practice
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Software traceability is an important aspect in DevOps based software development environments. DevOps practices connect the development level and operational level software artefacts with frequent updates. Consequently, traceability management of the artefacts is essential to avoid the conflicts and inconsistencies during the continuous deployment activities. This paper addresses traceability establishment throughout the entire software development, considering both development and operational level artefacts. In this work, we have extended our previously developed SAT-Analyser traceability tool by establishing traceability between artefacts in source code, unit test scripts and build scrips. The accuracy of the traceability link establishment is evaluated using centrality-based network analysis techniques. The statistical results show an average of 71% accuracy.
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