Day 4- HP ALM- Traceability

What is traceability?
       Traceability means relationship between two or more similar type of entities.

Requirement traceability
           Next step is to create the traceability between requirements, by doing this helps to show you the requirement which is going to be affected by changing the other requirement. Relationship between two or more requirements are stored in traceability matrix.

                                                                        Traceability
                                           Requirement  <------------------------> Requirement

Traceability Matrix

Requirement traceability

Trace from Tab

    Indicates requirements that affects the selected requirement.

Trace to Tab 

    Indicates selected requirement affects the other requirements.


Risk based quality management (RBQM) [ this functionality is not available for QC  starter edition]

         This a mathematical calculation  to calculate the level at which  requirements has to be tested. You generally do not have unlimited resources available,and are not able to fully test every requirement(due to time constraint). You must take compromise and only partially test requirements that have low criticality to the business, or those that have only a minor risk associated with their implementation. This calculation is is based on following entities

•     Nature of the requirement
•     Resource availability

  As i said before requirements are grouped in a hierarchical tree structure. Requirement type which is enabled with Risk Based Quality Management(RBQM) is comprised of

• Risk analysis (Analyzation is done for higher level requirement in requirement tree,e.g., req.folder)
• Risk Assessment ( Assessment is done for the lower level requirements,i.e Child requirements)

We can go little deeper in to RBQM later.