Traceability Matrix and its Benefits in Project Management

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Traceability Matrix..........................................................................................................................3
Benefits of Traceability Matrix.......................................................................................................4
Figure 1: Traceability Matrix.......................................................................................................5
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Traceability Matrix
Traceability matrix can be defined as a particular document that is useful to correlate as
well as identify different kinds of operations that are carried out in the business, business
applications, security and any other kind of requirements that can be implemented in the business
organization. It can be also used for the testing and completion of the different business
operations. According to, Chitre et al. (2017) the traceability matrix helps in the evaluation of the
different system components and also relates in between them to provide the status of the
different kind of project requirements in terms of the completion of the project. The main use of
the traceability matrix can be seen in the development projects of the software, in order to locate,
identify and judge it as a specific functionality or component developed accordingly.
Generally a traceability matrix is termed as the type of document or worksheet that
consists of a large number of tables. For example when a software is being developed by the
organization, the software will have to be evaluated for completion with the help of the
traceability matrix, requirements of the project can also be placed within the left column and the
pertaining test cases can be placed on the top row (Jeong, Cho & Lee, 2018). The completion of
the project requirement and the test case will leave a mark on a particular intersection of the
chart and all of the different requirements can be included to calculate the status of the software
completion. The easy calculation will thus help the organization to gain a detailed insight into
whether the software will be fit for commercial use or not.
The application of the concept of traceability matrix to the requirements of the project
will always provide the requirements specification (Yoo & Choi, 2017). In most simple words,
Requirements Traceability Matrix can be termed as the particular tool that generally traces