Lessons learned from building a Web-based requirements tracing system

Abstract

Tracing requirements and other documents in large software projects are very difficult, particularly when these documents are distributed over a heterogeneous computing environment. In order to address such needs, we have experimented with Web technologies to aid the tracing of requirements. Our project (called STAR-Track) has been completed through requirement analysis, design and a prototype implementation. The paper reports on the lessons we learned from these activities.