Implementing Requirements Traceability and a Requirements Matrix

When a solution has been created, how do you know that the developers have created one specific to the original business requirements, no more and no less? A requirements traceability matrix is a simple documentation tool that can be used to help align the various kinds of requirements throughout the course of a project. A traceability matrix is a table of information that lists the business requirements in the left-most column, the functional requirements that make up the business requirement in the next column, and the testing requirements in the right-most column. This helps the project team visually determine the genealogy of a specific requirement. If a functional requirement ...

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