A Value Estimation Method for Feature-Oriented Requirements Tracing

Traceability links are useful for requirements change impact analysis, requirements conflict analysis, and requirements consistency checking. However, establishing and maintaining traceability links places a big burden since complex systems have especially yield an enormous number of various artifacts. We propose a value estimation method for feature-oriented requirements tracing. It uses a feature as intermediate catalysis to generate traceability links between user requirements and implementation artifacts, by priority level after analyzing each feature´s value. In addition, we present value evaluation parameters including requirements importance, requirements risk, cost & efforts, and templates for value analysis.