REQUIREMENTS TRACEABILITY
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In requirements management, requirements traceability refers to the ability to identify and trace the relationships between requirements at different points in the design. That is, at any point in the design it is essential to be able to identify the source of a particular requirement so that we can justify its existence. Similarly, there is little point in articulating a requirement unless we can look forward in the design to identify what requirements have flowed from it. Consequently, a design must have backwards and forwards requirements traceability
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