Software Requirement Engineering: Traceability Techniques and Tools

Abstract

Requirement Traceability is one of the activities in managing requirements. It is important for software projects and is affecting the quality of software products. Requirement Traceability is a method to analyze the effect of changes among various software development lifecycle parts. Agile methodologies have been presented as an alternative to traditional software engineering methodologies. The transformation between traditional and agile methodologies is a hard task so the need for traceability grows. This paper introduces traceability research at the requirement engineering on the traceability literature published during the last years. It also investigates and discusses the requirements for traceability issues. It finally presents several requirement traceability techniques and tools to support traceability.