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Requirements traceability

Requirements traceability

- [Brad] Welcome back to Cybrary's ISSEP course. I'm your instructor, Brad Rhodes. Let's jump into requirements traceability. In this video, we're going to cover questions about requirements traceability, we're going to talk about the requirements traceability matrix, which is how we track requirements, and we're going to talk about why we should do RTM. So, what should be traceable when we talk about requirements? Well, it's kind of like stakeholders, everything. Everything needs to be traceable. If we don't trace everything, then we're going to miss something, pretty straightforward. Another question we want to ask ourselves when we talk about requirements traceability is linkages. Who's responsible, one, for making them, and two, how do we make sure they're defined? Well, we really have to look at linkages, 'cause if we don't, then it's very possible that one module or one part of that system of interest won't actually connect or work correctly with another one. So who's…

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