Towards Automated Evidence Generation for Rapid and Continuous Software Certification

@article{Santos2020TowardsAE,
  title={Towards Automated Evidence Generation for Rapid and Continuous Software Certification},
  author={Joanna C. S. Santos and Ali Shokri and Mehdi Mirakhorli},
  journal={2020 IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering Workshops (ISSREW)},
  year={2020},
  pages={287-294}
}
Software system traceability plays a crucial role in the development and assurance of any dependable softwareintensive system. Federal agencies developing or regulating mission-centric or safety-critical software systems require traceability as a core component of the approval and certification process. Manually generating and managing traceability links is a tedious and error-prone task that requires great effort. The state-of-the-art automated traceability techniques rely on information… 
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