What is Traceability Matrix in Testing?

hi Varesh,

Traceability Matrix is a document used for tracking the requirement, Test cases and the defect. This document is prepared to make the clients satisfy that the coverage done is complete as end to end, This document consists of Requirement/Base line doc Ref No., Test case/Condition, Defects/Bug id. Using this document the person can track the Requirement based on the Defect id.

Please refer

http://www.softwaretestingtimes.com/2010/04/traceability-matrix-from-software.html
http://quality-assurance-software-testing.blogspot.in/2006/12/what-is-traceability-matrix.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traceability_matrix

hope this will help you.

Hi Varesh,


Traceability Matrix is a table that correlates or design documents to test documents. This verifies that the test results are correct and is also used to change tests when the source documents are changed.

It is a document used for tracking the requirement, Test cases and the defect. This document is prepared to make the clients satisfy that the coverage done is complete as end to end, this document consists of Requirement/Base line doc Ref No., Test case/Condition, Defects / Bug id. Using this document the person can track the Requirement based on the Defect id.


Thanks