Analyzing Tools and Techniques for Evaluating Requirements Traceability

Requirements change throughout the software development lifecycle, from requirement elicitation and analysis to software operation. Software requirements can be traced back to their source and shown to depend on one another. According to studies, the tools and techniques for the present traceability methodologies need to be revised to prevent the practical application of traceability. We analyzed evaluation techniques and requirements traceability tools in this article to determine whether evaluation techniques are truly being used and supported by software tools. As a result, we noted no connection between the approaches and tools examined and that some criteria, such as stakeholder communication, difficulty of tools, and requirement stability, needed to be better considered in the evaluated tools.