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id: traceability
requestedLanguage: en
descriptionLanguage: en
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# Requirements Traceability

- Type: artifact alignment practice
- Group: Documentation, risks, and agreements
- Placement: Documentation, risks, and agreements
- [Source](<https://ieeecs-media.computer.org/media/education/swebok/swebok-v4.pdf>)

[HTML](https://dpm.cnonim.name/practices/traceability/)

Maintain links between requirements, decisions, implementation, and tests to assess coverage and the impact of changes.

## Relationships

- preserves provenance from: [Requirements Elicitation](/practices/elicitation/en.md) (support)
- may link requirements to: [Acceptance Test-Driven Development](/practices/atdd/en.md) (support)
- provides links for: [Change Impact Analysis](/practices/changeimpact/en.md) (support)
- helps map levels in: [V-model](/practices/vmodel/en.md) (support)

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