Attachement 7. REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY MATRIX

One of the best methods of generating entries for the Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) is to conduct a "shalls'' review and use those results as requirement entries in the RTM. If you have not accomplished this task before, don't worry. It is rather simple nowadays with the "find'' function on most word processing programs. There are, of course, applications dedicated to pulling "shalls'' and "wills'' from requirements documents and creating an RTM for you. If you use one of these programs, don't trust it completely. Although they are quite good, they do make mistakes in judgment. It's up to you to ensure that the RTM is complete and accurate.

The U.S. Army defines traceability as:

The capability ...

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