Em Busca de Agilidade na An??lise de Impacto: O Artefato FIR

Requirements management uses traceability information to maintain the consistency between requirements and between requirements and other software artifacts. Accordingly, the impact analysis technique depends on traceability information for an agile estimative of the implications of requirement changes. The need to be agile imposes specific demands on traceability that may bring difficulties for the management of requirements. This paper presents FIR (functionality-information-rule), an artifact that supports traceability by means of more specialized links, in order to accommodate such demands. A simple example illustrates the applicability of the FIR artifact and is used to discuss some of its benefits and challenges .