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The benefits that proper management of traceability information can bring to any given (software development) project are beyond any doubt. These benefits become even more appealing when dealing with traceability does not imply additional efforts. This is the case of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). As a matter of fact, since model transformations are the wheel that drives MDE proposals forward, traceability data can be automatically available in MDE projects. To that end, the implicit traceability relationships contained in any model transformation have to be made explicit by enriching the model transformation with traces generation capabilities. However, this refinement process implies a cost in terms of quality: enriched transformations are intuitively more complex. To back such intuition, this work presents an empirical study to assess the impact over the quality of the automatic enrichment of model transformations.
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Santiago, I., Vara, J.M., de Castro, V., Marcos, E. (2013). Measuring the Effect of Enabling Traces Generation in ATL Model Transformations. In: Filipe, J., Maciaszek, L.A. (eds) Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering. ENASE 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 417. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54092-9_17
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