Requirements traceability in an integrated development environment

Good development environment support is essential for good requirements traceability. The paper describes how requirements traceability is supported in Bell-Northern Research´s Integrated Development Environment, an internally developed version control and configuration management environment. Emphasis is given to the way in which requirements traceability interacts with the key features of the environment: generic (tool independent), fine-grained design information management that permits users to quickly integrate new tools, and version control/configuration management.