TRACING DEPENDENCIES BETWEEN DEVELOPMENT ARTIFACTS IN A SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT PROJECT

摘要

A method for managing traceability links (60) in a software development project and a computer readable medium are described. A plurality of surrogates (54, 56) is stored in a traceability management storage (52). The surrogates are associates with development artifacts (40, 46) including artifact content of at least one of the types chosen from requirement, design, code, test, test result, or issue. The development artifacts are of a plurality of different storage format types editable and/ or visualizable by associated development tools. The development artifacts are stored in artifact storage (44, 45) different from the traceability management storage (52). The surrogates comprise at least a first surrogate (54) for a first development artifact (40) and a second surrogate (56) for a second development artifact (46). Each of the surrogates (54, 56) comprises at least an identification, a type of the artifact content, and a storage format type of the associated development artifact (40, 46). The surrogate does not comprise the entire artifact content of the associated development artifact. At least one traceability link is (60) stored in the traceability management storage (52) comprising at least a pointer to the first and second surrogates (54, 56).The surrogates (54, 56) and/or the traceability link (60) are created by read-only access to an associated development artifact (40, 46).