Activity overview of activity "Link Requirements to Design"

Activity break down of activity "Link Requirements to Design"

Detailed description of activity "Link Requirements to Design"

13-22 Traceability record

• All requirements (customer and internal) are to be traced
• Identifies a mapping of requirement to life cycle work products
• Provides the linkage of requirements to work product decomposition (i.e., requirement  design  code  test  deliverables, etc.)
• Provides forward and backwards mapping of requirements to associated work products throughout all phases of the life cycle

NOTE: this may be included as a function of another defined work product (example: A CASE tool for design decomposition may have a mapping ability as part of its features)

Extended Markdown

Extended Markdown is a special format (actually a DSL), used in this process for tracability. While the file is 100% markdown compliant, there are some additional tags to identify relations (links).

Because this links can be easily identified by text searches, a small helper (script) is able to collect all links and add the corresponding backward links. This ensures, that forward and backward links are always consistent (not more than that).

• All reqirement documents are written in “Extended Markdown”.

• The “Extended Markdown” files are considered to be “sourcefiles” of the requirement document (and are configuration items).