An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem

Gotel, O. C. Z., & Finkelstein, C. W. (1994). An Analysis of the Requirements Traceability Problem. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Requirements Engineering, 94-101.

Type

Conference paper

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1994

DOI

10.1109/icre.1994.292398

Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRE.1994.292398

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operations_research

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Primes

• Traceability
  • Traceability is the structural property by which any element of a system—a component, decision, transformation, or outcome—can be linked backward through its complete history of derivation, origin, and custody to its source, and forward through its current and downstream uses, enabling audit, attribution, impact analysis, and accountability on demand, as Gotel and Finkelstein (1994) formalized in their canonical analysis of the requirements traceability problem.

    This sourceIEEE. Foundational analysis based on study of 100+ practitioners; introduces pre-RS and post-RS traceability and frames the bidirectional linkage requirement that defines the field.

Mechanisms

• Change Impact Report
  • Its failure mode is that a report is only as complete as the trace links behind it

    This sourceShows that traceability-dependent analysis is bounded by the project information and interconnections that are actually recorded and maintained.

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