| Requirements traceability remains an important concern for software developers, including management. It supports assessment of changes, provides guidance, and it is viewed as a measure of quality. Nevertheless, its adoption and consequent benefits do not produce uniform results. There are many factors influencing the effectiveness of requirements traceability: adaptability to project specific needs, integration into the development process, and support for organizational knowledge are some desirable features of tracing environments that are difficult to obtain. In this talk we discuss the reasons why it is not easy to incorporate proposed models and techniques of requirements traceability into the development process. We also present the overall design of an object-oriented library for requirements tracing and discuss how it may be used to overcome some of the above mentioned difficulties. |
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