APPENDIXA

Traceability

James D. Palmer

Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Software Consultant

ABSTRACT

Traceability gives essential assistance in understanding the relationships that exist within and across software requirements, design, and implementation and is critical to the development process by providing a means of ascertaining how and why system development products satisfy stakeholder requirements, especially for large complex systems. Traceability provides a path to the validation and verification of stakeholder requirements to assure these needs are met by the delivered system, as well as information on testing procedures, performance measures, non-functional characteristics, and behavioral aspects for the delivered system. ...

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