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Requirements Traceability

Requirements Traceability

Aug 16, 2012

The Requirements Traceability View

By default, the Requirements Traceability view shows a summary of the map of all Requirements of a Project versus JIRA Issues, including the custom issue types. A sample view is presented below:

Linking Requirements with Artifacts

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.

    • Filters within the Panel

      • For "Link New Artifacts", user has an option to select Unlinked Issues by using Other Filter > Isolated option.

      • 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".

Filters and View setting

  • The system also provides filters to view

    • Baselines, inlcluding

      • Latest version of Requirements

      • All versions of Requirements

    • Requirements associated with specific Releases.

  • User can configure the columns to be displayed in the Traceability view

    • Refer Columns display in Tables for details.

    • This property is set as per the preference of each user.

  • Using the filters provided in the column headers, users can now identify Requirements not associated with Test Cases OR A Specific type of Artifact. This is depicted in the following image:

Data Export

Requirement traceability table can be exported to PDF by clicking icon on top right corner.