Technical Report SCCH-TR-1636 Funded by the Austrian government, the State of Upper Austria, the Johannes Kepler University Linz Towards Automated Traceability Assessment through Augmented Lifecycle Space Miklós Biró, József Klespitz, Johannes Gmeiner, Christa Illibauer, Levente Kovács Abstract. The assessment and improvement of the satisfaction of traceability requirements during the development of software in general and of safety-critical software in particular is demanding and costly. The special requirements are reflected in software process related general and industry specific standards and the popular agile approaches as well. It is imminent, for practical and logical reasons, that there is a need for the automation of the assessment of the completeness and consistency of traceability as far as possible. In addition to highlighting experienced weaknesses of current either homogeneous or heterogeneous tool environments intending to support lifecycle traceability, this paper outlines new solutions and suggests the exploitation of emerging technologies for the automation of traceability assessment and improvement. Keywords: application lifecycle management, process assessment, process improvement, open services for lifecycle collaboration, tools integration, heterogeneous tools environment, existence, non-existence This is the preprint version of the paper whose final published version appeared as: - Biró, M., Klespitz, J., Gmeiner, J., Illibauer, C., & Kovács, L. (2016). Towards automated traceability assessment through augmented lifecycle space. In C. Kreiner, R. V. O’Connor, A. Poth, & R. Messnarz (Eds.) Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement, vol. 633 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, (pp. 94–105). Springer International Publishing. URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44817-6_8