The ARDoCo Tool Landscape: REST API, TraceView, and TraceViz for Architecture Traceability
Keim, Jan
1; Fuchß, Dominik
1; Corallo, Sophie
1; Hey, Tobias
1; Winter, Julian; Feichtinger, Kevin
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1 Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
1; Fuchß, Dominik
1; Corallo, Sophie
1; Hey, Tobias
1; Winter, Julian; Feichtinger, Kevin
11 Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL), Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Abstract (englisch):
Context and Problem. Software development produces interrelated artifacts like software architecture documentation (SAD), software architecture models (SAMs), and source code, whose relationships are essential for maintenance and consistency checking. However, automatically recovering links between these artifacts (traceability link recovery (TLR)) remains difficult to deploy in practice.
Method and Aim. We present an accessible tool landscape for ARDoCo’s TLR approaches: the ARDoCo REST API exposes four TLR pipelines (SAD-SAM, SAM-Code, SAD-Code, and SAD-SAM-Code) via HTTP endpoints with asynchronous execution and caching; TraceView is a browser-based frontend with a guided wizard and interactive multi-panel exploration of recovered links and inconsistencies; and TraceViz, which is a VS Code extension that overlays trace links directly onto documentation in the IDE.
Results and Conclusion. All three components are publicly deployed and usable. A preliminary study for TraceViz’s in-IDE visualization confirmed that it improves developer comprehension during software understanding tasks. The tool landscape makes state-of-the-art TLR accessible to architects, developers, and tool integrators. ... mehr
Method and Aim. We present an accessible tool landscape for ARDoCo’s TLR approaches: the ARDoCo REST API exposes four TLR pipelines (SAD-SAM, SAM-Code, SAD-Code, and SAD-SAM-Code) via HTTP endpoints with asynchronous execution and caching; TraceView is a browser-based frontend with a guided wizard and interactive multi-panel exploration of recovered links and inconsistencies; and TraceViz, which is a VS Code extension that overlays trace links directly onto documentation in the IDE.
Results and Conclusion. All three components are publicly deployed and usable. A preliminary study for TraceViz’s in-IDE visualization confirmed that it improves developer comprehension during software understanding tasks. The tool landscape makes state-of-the-art TLR accessible to architects, developers, and tool integrators. ... mehr
| Zugehörige Institution(en) am KIT | Institut für Informationssicherheit und Verlässlichkeit (KASTEL) |
| Publikationstyp | Proceedingsbeitrag |
| Publikationsjahr | 2026 |
| Sprache | Englisch |
| Identifikator | KITopen-ID: 1000195623 |
| HGF-Programm | 46.23.01 (POF IV, LK 01) Methods for Engineering Secure Systems |
| Erschienen in | 2026 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) |
| Veranstaltung | 41st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE 2026), München, Deutschland, 12.10.2026 – 16.10.2026 |
| Verlag | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Projektinformation | SFB 1608/1, 501798263 (DFG, DFG KOORD, SFB 1608) |
| Bemerkung zur Veröffentlichung | in press |
| Externe Relationen | Video |
| Schlagwörter | software traceability, software architecture, documentation |
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