REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND INDUSTRY CASE STUDY
Richard Torkar, Tony Gorschek, ROBERT H. FELDT, Mikael Svahnberg, Uzair Akbar Raja, Kashif Kamran · International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering · 2012
Requirements traceability enables software engineers to trace a requirement from its emergence to its fulfillment. In this paper we examine requirements traceability definitions, challenges, tools and techniques, by the use of a systematic review performing an exhaustive search through the years 1997–2007. We present a number of common definitions, challenges, available tools and techniques (presenting empirical evidence when found), while complementing the results and analysis with a static validation in industry through a series of interviews.