Requirements Management and Traceability

Requirement traceability is a part of requirements management. Requirements management also includes the handling of test requirements. Councill and Councill are right on the money with their assessment of what a requirements management application should do. According to them, a requirements management application should offer or support these features:

  1. The tool's capability to accept input of, or conduct queries on, relationships among the following lifecycle work products—

    1. Business rules

    2. Business models

    3. Requirements

    4. Use cases

    5. Other object-oriented or component-based design diagrams

    6. Test cases

  2. Seamless integration with the following tools—

    1. OOAD [object-oriented analysis and design] or component-based analysis ...

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