Traceability

What is Traceability?

The significance of traceability within a requirement tool or a test management tool (like HP Quality Center) enables links between requirements and tests. This notifies what needs to be changed when a requirement changes.

Requirements management tools also enable requirement coverage metrics to be calculated easily as traceability enables test cases to be mapped to requirement.

Significance of Traceability:

• To Identify the apt version of test cases to be used.

• To identify which test cases can be reused or need to be updated.

• To assist the debugging process so that a defects found when executing tests can be tracked back to the corresponding version of requirement.