Managing Software Requirements: A Unified Approach

Chapter 31. Using Traceability to Support Verification

Key Points

• Traceability is an effective technique which supports the verification activity.

• Software requirements are traced from one or more product features identified in the Vision document.

• Traceability tools enable you to inspect the traceability relationships to ensure that no verification relationships have been omitted and that no excess verification relationships are present.

• Tools alone can't do the job; verification requires thinking.

Verification is the ongoing process we recommend to ensure that each step of the development is correct, meets the needs of the next step, and is not superfluous to the needed activities. This chapter examines traceability techniques you can use to support ...