Requirements Traceability

Owned by Sanjay Sahani
Feb 04, 2012
2 min read

Requirement Manager can link/unlink JIRA issues/bugs/tasks/custom issues with a given requirement and can check traceability in real time.

  • To link an artifact to a requirement, just click on the corresponding cell of that row. After that a panel will appear containing:
    • Linked Artifacts table showing artifacts linked with this requirement. To unlink an artifact, just click on .
    • Link New Artifacts table showing artifacts not linked with this requirement. To link an artifact, just click on , that artifact will be automatically moved to linked artifact table.
    • Important Note : Please note that the panel shows issues only of the type chosen. For example, if you clicked on Bugs, then only Bugs will be displayed.

  • Color coding of table cells is done according to the status of the artifacts.
    • Red Color: if number of ("Resolved" and "Closed") artifacts are less than 50% of total attributes associated with requirement.
    • Yellow Color: if number of ("Resolved" and "Closed") artifacts are more than 50% and less than 100% of total attributes associated with requirement.
    • Green Color: If all artifacts are either "Resolved" OR "Closed".
  • The system also provides filters to view
    • Baselines, inlcuding
      • Latest version of Requirements
      • All versions of Requirements
    • Requirements associated with specific Releases.
  • Requirement traceability table can be exported to PDF/word by clicking icon on top right corner.