Requirements Traceability

Owned by Sanjay Sahani
Aug 16, 2012
3 min read

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
  • 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.