Design traceability--documenting the relationships between layers of design--can help systems engineers better manage requirements changes in their projects. Using traceability, engineers can identify immediate impact; calculate, prune, and elaborate the impact tree; and design and apply change.
Index Terms:
traceability, requirements, design
Citation:
Jeremy Dick, "Design Traceability," IEEE Software, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 14-16, Nov./Dec. 2005, doi:10.1109/MS.2005.150