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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 10, 2007
Scott D. Cowan, Ottawa, CA;
Brent A. Nicolle, Nepean, CA;
Scott D. Cowan, Ottawa, CA;
Brent A. Nicolle, Nepean, CA;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to traceability visualization in a model driven development (MDD) tool and provide a method, system and computer program product for visualization of implicit relationships in a trace query for MDD. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for visualization of implicit relationships in a trace query for MDD can be provided. The method can include issuing a model query in an MDD tool, retrieving an implicit relationship in response to the model query, generating a trace link for the implicit relationship and displaying the trace link in a trace query diagram for the MDD tool.