Testing with partial traced requirements: a necessary step towards higher quality system level verification
Şerban Catrava · Journal of Lightwave Technology · 2004
Summary form only given. We propose new approach called testing with partial traced requirements as an alternate solution to achieve quality system verification when sub-requirement tracing is unavailable. Partially traced requirements have already been used in a large two years project at Guidant Corporation. The project, called TMS, researched, built, and deployed a comprehensive test management system based on Guidant traceability graph. Partially traced requirements were successfully used: first to identify the issues related to sub-requirement tracing, and second to define a semi automated strategy to increase the quality system verification. In addition to presenting the methodology, we also report on the experiences and lessons learned during development and deployment of TMS.