Requirements Traceability Quiz

Which of the following is a benefit of traceability?

• Increased project complexity

• Faster and simpler impact analysis

• Limited communication between stakeholders

• More requirements to manage

What can traceability help detect in a project?

• Unused resources

• Missing functionality or implemented functionality not supported by any requirement

• Only new requirements

• Stakeholder disagreements

What is a challenge that business analysts face when representing needs and solutions?

• Ignoring stakeholder needs

• Accurately representing relationships between needs and solutions while balancing complexity

• Simplifying all requirements

• Reducing the number of stakeholders involved

How does traceability support release planning?

• By focusing solely on cost

• By providing a direct line of sight from requirement to expressed need

• By eliminating the need for requirements

• By increasing the number of requirements

What do business analysts consider when tracing requirements?

• Only the cost of requirements

• The value each link is supposed to deliver and the nature of the relationships

• The number of stakeholders involved

• The technology used for documentation

How does the level of formality affect the effort required for tracing requirements?

• It has no effect

• The effort decreases as formality increases

• The effort increases significantly with more requirements or higher levels of formality

• The effort becomes irrelevant

Why is it important to assess the nature of relationships when tracing requirements?

• To simplify the requirements

• To understand how requirements interconnect and support the overall solution

• To eliminate unnecessary links

• To focus on only technical aspects

What can be a potential drawback of having a high level of formality in requirement tracing?

• Increased clarity and organization

• Greater complexity and effort required to manage the traceability

• Fewer requirements

• Simplified communication

Which of the following best describes the relationship between the number of requirements and the effort to trace them?

• More requirements always simplify tracing

• The effort to trace increases with the number of requirements

• The number of requirements has no impact on tracing effort

• Tracing is easier with more requirements

What does the 'Derive' relationship indicate in requirements traceability?

• A requirement is unrelated to another

• A requirement is derived from another requirement

• A requirement is dependent on another

• A requirement is validated by a test case