Application Lifecycle Management Traceability Analysis Research Through Graph Database

To ensure consistency and integrity is the essential challenge of application lifecycle management, which requires the establishment of traceability relationships between the upstream and downstream artifact in each phases of the lifecycle. Traditionally, application lifecycle management systems use relational databases to manage traceability relationships. In the case of large amount of data and deeper depth of traceability levels over time, it faces problems such as low performance and poor display effect. This paper presents a new approach and a prototype case study as a proof of concept to improve the performance of traceability analysis and user experience which will further improve the efficiency of the entire R&D team through introduce graph database into an existing application lifecycle management system. The results of evaluation show that the proposed approach has achieve some promising output.