Traceability Enhancement Technique through the Integration of Software Configuration Management and Individual Working Environment

Software productivity and quality improvement through software configuration management is based on organized and consistent change management. In change management, artifact identified as configuration item should be able to provide its changed history to the members in group and the members should be able to trace the changes made for the corresponding artifact. General software configuration management systems provide tracing information for artifacts only within the configuration management system, and it does not go further to changes that occur within individual working environment. This paper provides a solution that helps tracing changes that occur not only in configuration management, but also individual artifact´s changes through the integration of configuration management system and individual working environment. A revised version in configuration management system is connected to the artifact version of the working environment by the tagging technique, and traceability can be managed more effectively by sharing the tracing information.