Requirement-to-Code Traceability in MVC Architecture Using Property Listing Task

The smooth traceability between software artifacts indicates successful software development. However, performing manual tracing is expensive. This research advances our knowledge of PLT's capabilities and potential applications in real-world software engineering scenarios. The previously developed PLT concept is tailored to MVC characteristics. This article proposes a novel requirement-to-code traceability in the MVC architecture. It uses a Property Listing Task to extract and represent information from each software artifact. Then, three rules are applied in finding the trace links of user stories and three separation concerns of MVC. A medium-sized industrial project was used to confirm the performance of the proposed method against the ground truth. Results show that it performs well with overall precision, recall, and F-measure each 89%, 92%, and 90%. The results of this case study can provide invaluable insights into the practical applicability and impact of our traceability solution in real-world software development scenarios.