Unique Requirements Specification & Traceability Software
Full Impact and Gap Analysis Support
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/Impact Graphs
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
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.
