Towards Requirements Reuse by Implementing Traceability in Agile Development

Abstract

Requirements reusability within agile development improves software quality and team productivity. One method to implement requirements reusability is traceability, in which relations and dependencies between requirements and artifacts are identified and linked. In this paper, we propose a semiautomated methodology to implement traceability in the agile development process in order to achieve requirements reusability. The main feature of our methodology is the coupling of semi-automated semantic trace generation with the outputs of the agile development process, thus facilitating requirements and artifact reuse. In contrast to previous work, this methodology is specifically designed for practical agile processes and artifacts. Our methodology will be implemented as a component within an existing open source agile tool in order to have minimal impact on the development process. This paper fills a current gap in the area of requirements reusability through traceability and contributes to the limited existing work in agile traceability methodologies.