What is traceability matrix??

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Answered by: Sahithi

  • Nov 25th, 2005


 this matrix defines the mapping between customer requirements and prepared testcases by testengineers.this matrix is requirements traceability matrix or requirements validation matrix.this is used by testing team to verify how far the testcases prepared have covered the requirements of the functionalities to be tested.

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Sahithi

  • Nov 25th, 2005
 

 this matrix defines the mapping between customer requirements and prepared testcases by testengineers.this matrix is requirements traceability matrix or requirements validation matrix.this is used by testing team to verify how far the testcases prepared have covered the requirements of the functionalities to be tested.

emran

  • Dec 1st, 2005
 

To ensure that the all test cases r passed and met the given req. spec. tracability matrix is used

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A traceability matrix documents?1).User and functional requirements.2).Design specifications that address each user requirement.3). Testing references (i.e., Operational, and User Acceptance) and specific objectives orStandard Operations Procedures (SOPs) which verify that the user requirements havebeen met.

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Prasanna

  • Apr 24th, 2006
 

what is the role of scope in test life cycle

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Sushma

  • May 8th, 2006
 

It is a document that maps the test cases to the requirements.

Malli Reddy

  • May 26th, 2006
 

The traceability matrix showing the relationship between test requirements and test cases.and test engineer doing all functionality covering or not?through treceablity matrix...mapping the requirement to test cases...

Himu

  • Aug 19th, 2006
 

How do u establish relationship between requirements and test cases to do the traceability matrix?

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Narendrantha Reddy

  • Sep 13th, 2006
 

Traceability matrix is table which shows the use cases, test cases and srs ids.orIt is defined as mapping between user requirements and test cases.

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Narendra Reddy

  • Sep 13th, 2006
 

It is correct, and another defination is it is document which consists of use cases, srs ids and test cases.

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validated

  • Oct 27th, 2006
 

A traceabitity matrix serves to map activities in every phase of the SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle).

A typical SDLC might have the following documents documenting each of the phases:

1. Business Requirements (BR)

2. System Requirements (SR)

3. Design Specification (DS) 

4. Unit Specifications(s) (US)

6. Unit Test Cases (UTC)

7. System Test Cases (STC) 

8. User Acceptance Test Cases (UAT)

The content of each of these documents is identified via identifiers.

i.e. , BR has BR numbers, SR has SR numbers, Design Specification has Design identifiers, Unit/System Test Cases have Test Case Ids.

Now, the traceability matrix consists of rows and columns.

The rows are identified through BRs and the columns have the SDLC phases as headers. the cells in the matrix are filled with the identifiers taken from the corresponding documents. This way, every element in every phase falls into place and any particular element can be traced to a BR. This fulfills the need to trace all activity in the SDLC to its intented purpose.

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prasad

  • Dec 26th, 2006
 

hi sahithi,

you have given the definition for traceability matrix, and could you please give the defintion for test traceability matrix? Tell me whether both are same or different?

Rehards,

prasad

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SIVA SANKAR CHOWDARY

  • Apr 5th, 2012
 

A document showing the relationship between test test requirements and test cases.

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Senthil Kumar

  • Jun 24th, 2012
 

Traceability Matrix is mapping the RD sections with the FSD sections, USD, Unit Test case document, System Test Case Document, Release Notes section. The below is the model.
RD FSD USD UTCD STCD Release Notes
4.1 2.1 USD filename UTCD filename STCD filename Rel Notes Sec

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rajesh

  • Aug 8th, 2012
 

Mapping the requirement with the test case.

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ranjithkumar

  • Oct 16th, 2012
 

The tractability matrix is nothing but mapping the requirements in the row of the table and the test cases for the requirement are mentioned in the column of table, this gives clear idea to the tester, whether we completed test cases for all the requirement are not.

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Munna541

  • Oct 28th, 2012
 

traceability matrix is a document that contains test cases,test case description,expected results and actual results..

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sunitha

  • Feb 15th, 2013
 

The mapping of Test Requirements with Test Case to check weather all requirements have been covered is called traceability matrix.
There are two kinds of Traceability matrix.

1. Forward Traceability Matrix.
2. Backward Traceability Matrix.

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venkat prasad

  • Mar 13th, 2013
 

Traceability matrix:::(by using the traceability matrix we are giving assurance to the client that each and every requirement covered in the form of test cases and all the test cases are executed.
Test traceability matrix :::::(we r using the test traceability matrix to which requirement based we r written the test cases.the both r not same

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Bhuvaneshwari K

  • Oct 10th, 2014
 

A traceability matrix is a document, usually in the form of a table, that correlates any two baselined documents that require a many-to-many relationship to determine the completeness of the relationship. It is often used with high-level requirements (these often consist of marketing requirements) and detailed requirements of the product to the matching parts of high-level design, detailed design, test plan, and test cases.

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Amit

  • Aug 27th, 2015
 

Mapping between test cases or requirement is called traceability matrix.

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