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SEURAT: integrated rationale management

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Janet E. Burge,

David C. BrownAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 835 - 838

https://doi.org/10.1145/1368088.1368215

Published: 10 May 2008 Publication History

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A completed software product is the end result of many decisions that must be made throughout the development lifecycle. Unfortunately, the rationale for these decisions is usually not captured and is therefore lost. The Software Using RATionale (SEURAT) system integrates with the Eclipse Interactive Development Environment to support rationale capture and use. In addition to presenting the rationale to the developer/maintainer as needed, SEURAT also supports requirements traceability and impact assessment.

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ICSE '08: Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering

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558 pages

ISBN:9781605580791

DOI:10.1145/1368088

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University of Leipzig

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