Managing Software Requirements: A Use Case Approach, Second Edition

Chapter 27. Tracing Requirements

Key Points

• Requirements traceability is a proven technique that can increase the quality and reliability of software.

• Traceability is mandated in certain high-assurance software development environments.

• Traceability extends from user needs to product features to use cases and supplementary requirements, and from there to implementation and testing.

• The value and cost of traceability varies with project context and available tooling.

Tracing requirements is an ongoing process used to ensure that each step in the development process is correct, conforms to the needs of the prior step, and is not superfluous to the needed activities. This chapter examines traceability techniques you can use to support tracing requirements ...