Tailoring Traceability Information to Business Needs

Several surveys over the past 20 years have observed that traceability information is often poorly recorded. In previous work we have argued that this is a result of many requirements traceability systems failing to provide any direct benefit to the development process. In this paper we describe an application of traceability by a company, with a resulting increase in profitability as well as other benefits for the development engineer, project management and customer