Unique Requirements Specification & Traceability Software

Traceability – Feature Highlights

Visual Trace Spec is only tool on the market that provides the following unique traceability tools:

Trace/Impact Graphs: For establishing links graphically, and traceability, gap and impact analysis.

Multi-level Trace Grids: For complete bi-directional traceability, gap and impact analysis.

Link Type Views: For managing relationships types and relationships attributes.

Trace Graph allows you to perform a number of requirements management and life cycle management tasks graphically:

View items in a single or multiple trees.
Establish links (parent-child, peer-to-peer and bi-directional) graphically among requirements as well as with other project artifacts.
Display all links associated with a single selected node for a broader scope of what’s going on in the project.
Auto generate Impact Graphs (for directly OR directly and indirectly impacted items).
Identify and clear suspect relationships.
Add/update items directly in the Trace Graph module.
Optionally, set link types (relationship types) and link attributes.
Attach documents, diagrams and external files to Graph items.
Search items in the Graph.
Move and rearrange items by Drag & Drop.

Multi-level Trace Grids enable you to:

Display traceability relationships amongst items (requirements, use cases, test cases, test steps, etc.), diagrams and associated files.
View traceability relationships in forward and backward directions. For example, you may display requirements linked to test cases (forward traceability) OR test cases linked to requirements (backward traceability).
Identify (quickly and easily) the impact of requirements changes on the whole system.
Find dangling requirements (not linked to other requirements or test cases) with ease.
Leverage Boolean logic to identify complex relationships between requirements and other system components.
Apply Grid filters for traceability, impact and gap analysis.
Identify and clear suspect relationships.
Export the Trace reports (Items with Trace Links, Items without Trace Links, and All Items) in document and spreadsheet formats.