Traceability Links Recovery in BPMN Models

Traceability Links Recovery has been a topic of interest for many years. However, Traceability Links Recovery in models in general, and BPMN models in particular, has not received enough attention yet. Through my work, I aim to fill this research gap by studying Traceability Links Recovery between requirements and BPMN models. So far, under the tutelage of directors Carlos Cetina and Óscar Pastor, I adapted Traceability Links Recovery code techniques to work over BPMN models. The produced approach was applied to two different case studies, an academic one and an industrial one. The outcomes of the research outperformed the state of the art baseline. Under the light of these novel findings, opportunities for new research unfold.

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