Re: Feature request/discussion: Trace to requirements

If you are trying to meet CMMI, you actually need BI-DIRECTIONAL
traceability to both requirements and to test cases.  (It would be
interesting to know if anyone has done this in code.)

We could use aliases in code, but that does not address the issue of how
one traces from the test case(s), through the code, through the detailed
software requirement(s), through the functional requirement, to the
conceptual or marketing requirement -- AND the reverse.

The solution we implemented is a traceability matrix.

Regards, 
Larry Randall

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Greg
Stern
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 22:44
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Doxygen-develop] Feature request/discussion: Trace to
requirements

Hello.

I was thinking about creating a tool which would add traceability from
code 
and doxygen pages to "requirements". Requirements traceability analysis
(in 
my professional experience) seems to be a major gap in existing tools
out 
there today.

Basically, I'm thinking of adding two tags:
@traceTo (output) and @traceFrom (input/source).  Perhaps more future
advanced 
requirements would define layers/groups of traces (from Software
Designs, 
Software Requirments, System Requirements, etc).

In general, I think this could create:
1) Hyperlinks to source requirements in a page
2) Pages of requirements analysis, specifically: Trace matrix, Code that
has 
no requirements, Code that has no output, etc.

I'm still working out how to interface with requirements databases /
where the 
requirements would be stored. But before I started any more in depth 
research, I figured I would post a query to this mailing list and see if
you 
have either a) thought of this before / started implementing down this
road 
or b) know of others that have.

Greg

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