Demonstration of augmented lifecycle space in heterogeneous environment

Safety-critical and other high reliability software developments cannot be created without additional support tools. The aim of these so called application lifecycle management systems are to make it possible to track every step of the development process and support the documentation created for customers and regulatory bodies. In such developments, it is crucial to prove that traceability is complete and there is no contradiction between the artifacts. In former papers, the idea of the general approach called Augmented Lifecycle Space was presented which can effectively support the detection of traceability gaps and inconsistencies. Furthermore, the application of this method was demonstrated in homogeneous systems. In this paper, the applicability of this approach is presented in heterogeneous environment where the theoretical problems are partially already solved and it is possible to give insight of the technical difficulties.