Posts Tagged 'Traceability'

Building Resilient Software: Traceability in Systems That Run The World

February 6, 2024

In the annals of engineering, the importance of traceability—a meticulous method of mapping every stage of a project from inception to fruition—is both a bulwark against risk and a beacon guiding toward innovation. Within this framework, the specter of single points of failure (SPOFs) looms large, threatening to unravel the carefully woven tapestry of even the most robust systems. The consequences of traceability failures are not merely academic; they are vividly etched in the ledger of real-world engineering calamities, offering stark reminders of the potential fallout.

 

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Spotlight on Spira 6.9 - Requirements Management Document View

April 15, 2021

It is widely agreed in the software industry that one of the keys to delivering high-quality products is to get the requirements "right." However, there is far less consensus on what "right" actually means and even less consensus on the best way to get there. So having powerful requirements management and requirements traceability is vitally important to the software development and testing process. In our latest version of SpiraTeam and SpiraPlan, we have improved the new requirements document view to make it more useful for business analysts (BAs) and other team members.

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Bulk Import of Requirements Test Step Traceability for Mission Systems

October 18, 2018

One of the unique needs when designing and developing mission systems for the defense industry, is the fact that you need to be able to trace system requirements to individual test steps in a test case. Based on this advice we received from industry subject matter experts, we added support in SpiraTeam v5 for this feature. However one limitation was that the data migration tools we have for loading data from Excel into SpiraTeam don't let you add requirement - test step links in bulk... until today.

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Inflectra's Tools That Solve Software Development & Testing Challenges in the Financial Sector

April 11, 2018

Are you working in a highly regulated industry, such as finance or banking?

Do you have to deal with constantly changing regulatory compliance needs in software development and testing? 

Are requirements traceability, security and privacy, system's speed and agility and data interoperability some of the areas that require constant monitoring, upgrading and investment?

Inflectra offers a powerful set of tools: SpiraTeam, Rapise and SpiraPlan - that work together seamlessly to solve all these problems and many more. 

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The Defect-Requirements-Test Triangle

July 15, 2014

It is quite a popular notion that there should be formally recorded associations or links between defects and software code configuration items. This can explain why a piece of code has later been modified and also helps individuals find their way back to the ‘fix’ should the defect be found to still exist upon re-testing. But there are other ways to achieve this and so the question is: can the relationship between the defect and the code really be the most important one? Read More