RE: [AM] Why Traceability?

Ouch! Where is the fun in that? ;)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: McGovern, Patrick J [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: 16 March 2004 14:54
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [AM] Why Traceability?
> 
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> 
> 
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> Sure there are times when traceability has a role to play. These would
> be enormous projects with very big teams. Most software 
> development does
> not happen that way.
> [Patrick mumbled: ] unfortunately, that's the character of my projects
> lately :(
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: McGovern, Patrick J [mailto:[email protected]]
> > Sent: 16 March 2004 14:14
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [AM] Why Traceability?
> > 
> > 
> > IME traceability offers an understanding of impact of change 
> > and allows
> > you to actually somewhat measure that change.  
> > 
> > If I change this use case I will also have to review these 
> classes and
> > those classes being changed will affect this component and if that
> > component changes I have to rerun these tests to ensure that 
> > everything
> > "still" works correctly...
> > 
> > Is that too simplistic an answer? That seems to me to be the 
> > real value.
> > Of course you can go in the other direction too...this 
> > machine went down
> > so that service is no longer available...blah blah...
> > 
> > -pjm-
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tina Erwee [mailto:[email protected]] 
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 7:04 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: RE: [AM] Why Traceability?
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > I think the only real stick traceability ever gave anyone, 
> > was the stick
> > to hit the client over the head with: "You can't have this, 
> you dirty
> > little client. You did not ask for this (2 years ago)!"
> > 
> > Oh, of course traceability generates work. Keeping your 
> > requirements and
> > models in sync (explicit traceability) can be so much work 
> > that you will
> > need an extra resource just to manage the docs, unless you 
> use a tool
> > (that cost more than the resource)!
> > 
> > That's about it!
> > Tina
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Paul Oldfield [mailto:[email protected]]
> > > Sent: 16 March 2004 13:34
> > > To: INTERNET:[email protected]
> > > Subject: [AM] Why Traceability?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi, all.
> > > 
> > > There has been a thread over several agile forums in the
> > > last 10 days or so about Traceability.
> > > 
> > > There seemed to be some consensus reached that 
> > > traceability is a solution to a problem, one that may no
> > > longer hold true (as in no longer the best solution) in an 
> > > agile environment.
> > > 
> > > However, a topic that never seemed to reach consensus,
> > > or even be given a satisfactory answer, IMHO, was the
> > > question of what problem or problems traceability was
> > > trying to solve.
> > > 
> > > Given the apparent number of greybeards on this forum,
> > > (younger folk can also respond, please?) can anyone
> > > give an opinion as to why traceability is wanted - what does
> > > it give us?
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Paul Oldfield
> > > www.aptprocess.com
> > > 
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> > > 
> > > 
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