Agile Requirement Traceability Matrix

Abstract

Over the past 20 years, agile development methodology has been commonly adopted by developers. One reason is that it flexibly responds to changes. In contrast, a typical requirement traceability matrix is inflexible in incorporating changes. In this paper, we propose Agile Requirement Traceability Matrix (ARTM). ARTM manages traceability mappings between two artifacts and automatically generates the entire requirement traceability matrix in spreadsheet. The case study, we also conducted, shows that ARTM flexibly incorporates changes in the spirit of agile development.