Overview
The Traceability Matrix is an essential part of any Software development process, and hence irrespective of the size of the project, whenever there is a requirement to build a Software this concept comes into focus.
Requirements traceability matrix tracks every issue and links its relationships with other issues within a JIRA project. You can easily identify the missing relationships and complexity of the artifacts.
On this page:
Configure Rows and Columns
- Open project in R4J
- Select Traceability in navigation menu
- Click on Configure View
- Fill in required information:
- Row / Column Definition
- Display Size: Max. number of issues to be included
- Source: Select query type for issue search. Available options are:
- Issue Types: Select all issues of specific type(s)
- Filter: Select all issues of a specific Jira filter
- Only Managed Filters that appear in the following categories can be selected in the Filter picker: Filters shared with current requirements project, Filters in “My“, “Favorite“, and/or “Popular“.
- JQL: Select all issues of a specific JQL query
- Link Definition:
- Link Types: Only display links of the selected type will be displayed
- Scope: (Un-)check to only show issues that have a link between row and column
- Row / Column Definition
On Display Size
The traceability matrix has a default display size of 20 requirements for both row and column. If there are more items available than what is shown, a warning message will be displayed.
To see more data in the matrix, try modifying the display size value in the configuration dialog or set a more granular filter.
Views
The configuration of the traceability view can be stored in a view so that users do not have to define all of it every time they need to see it.
To save a configuration as view, follow these steps:
- Define configuration as described above
- Click on Save view as in the left panel
- Fill in required information:
- Name: Name of the view
- Visibility: Define if the view shall be private (only for the currently logged in user) or public (for all users with access to this requirements project)
To load a previously stored configuration, follow these steps:
- Open project in R4J
- Select Traceability in navigation menu
- Select view in the left panel
Export
Once a view has been configured, it can be exported to either XML or Excel.
- Open project in R4J
- Select Traceability in navigation menu
- Create or load view as described above
- Click on Export
- Select XML or Excel