Managing change through traceability views
Conceptual overview
RequisitePro allows you to create two kinds of traceability views:
- Traceability Matrix, which illustrates the relationships between requirements of the same or different types. You use this matrix to create, modify, and delete traceability relationships and to view traceability relationships with a suspect state. You can also use the Traceability Matrix to filter and sort the row requirements and column requirements separately.
- Traceability Tree, which displays all internal and external requirements traced to or from a requirement (depending on the direction of the tree). The Traceability Tree displays only the first level of traceability among requirements that reside in different projects (cross-project traceability). For example, if a requirement in your project is traced to a requirement in another project (external requirement), the external requirement is displayed in the Traceability Tree, but other requirements that the external requirement is traced to are not displayed in the tree.
In a Traceability Matrix, arrows are used to denote the direction of traceability between two requirements.
When the arrow
appears in a cell (the intersection between a column and a row), it means that a requirement listed in that column can be traced to the requirement listed in that row. (The direction of the arrow indicates whether a requirement is traced to or traced from another requirement.)
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