A multi-faceted roadmap of requirements traceability types adoption in SCRUM: An empirical study

The purpose of this research is to determine based on an empirical study, what requirements traceability types are of importance to SCRUM teams, and what value and motive are behind the adoption taken from the perspective of different key players; developers, system analysts, SCRUM masters and project owners. This is in particular important as there a big number of requirements traceability models and tools available without a roadmap to provide guidance in evaluating them. A literature review was undertaken to study requirements traceability taxonomy in the context of agile development. In order to empirically test the adoption preferences a focus group study was undertaken to cover representatives from the different key players. Findings imply that a multi-faceted view is important when designing requirements traceability tools to satisfy the different perspectives. The derived adoption roadmap offers design principles that would make traceability tools less complicated and more influential by exposing traceability data and techniques according to player role.