ARDoCo Traceability Link Recovery

The goal of this project is to create trace links between artifacts like software architecture documentation, software architecture, and code.

Approaches

This repository contains several TLR approaches:

• SWATTR - Agent-based framework for linking textual architecture documentation (SAD) and formal models (SAM) using NLP and heuristics
• ArDoCode - Directly matches architecture documentation with code elements without requiring a formal model
• ArCoTL - Links architecture models (SAM) to source code using intermediate representations and matching heuristics
• TransArC - Transitive approach that connects documentation to code via an intermediate model (SAD → SAM → Code)
• ExArch - Uses Large Language Models to automatically extract architecture components from documentation and match them to code

For more information about these and other approaches like LiSSA, visit ardoco.de/approaches.

ARDoCo is actively developed by researchers of the Modelling for Continuous Software Engineering (MCSE) group of KASTEL - Institute of Information Security and Dependability at the KIT.