A Social Interaction Based Pre-Traceability for i* Models

There is a lack of work focusing on i* models pre-traceability. Most of traceability work on i* models is centered on forward or backward traceability, i.e., tracing i* models to design models or design models to i* models. It seems that the stakeholders' needs and the organizational process are first-class citizens, but the requirements engineering process is not. We present in this paper our approach to i* models pre-traceability, which focuses on tracing the requirements engineering process (designing the design). Using ITrace models, our approach focuses on the requirements process. Our approach is based on argumentation graphs to trace stakeholders' arguments on social interactions, as these arguments justify what is represented on i* models.