Traceability is an important theoretical and practical challenge in model driven development.

Traceability mechanisms are needed in processes involving automatic model to model transformations, in text/code generation, and in manual modelling activities, as well as end-to-end traceability. We are facing challenges of keeping models consistently synchronised, models and text/code in consistent states, and mixing manual updates with automatic processes.

The two first ECMDA Traceability workshops focused mainly on solving theoretical and technical aspects of traceability, and concluded that many of the theoretical and technical challenges of traceability are well understood. As a result, the workshop focus shifted towards applications of traceability in industrial settings. There are still unsolved theoretical and technical issues of traceability. However, most important is the limited availability of tools to support full traceability and proofs of real usage of traceability in model driven development.

We invite technical and theoretical papers that address traceability issues and papers that address practical application of traceability.

Authors of accepted papers from this, and all previous, ECMDA-TW workshops will be invited  to submit extended, revised, and updated papers to a Theme Issue on Traceability in the Springer Journal SoSyM.