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Requirement traceability is the process of following and identifying the life of requirements in forward or backward directions during software development lifecycle or modification. Visualization is used to analyse the whole development process with a graphical notation to show the life of each requirement and help to deliver a quality software system that meet stakeholders’ expectations. Due to limitations of existing requirement traceability visualization tools and techniques, their practical use is not widely in use. This paper presents a review study on tools and techniques for software requirement traceability visualization with summary and comparison to reveal their scalability and visual clutter issues. Our findings highlight a comprehensive information and latest developments to academic researchers and practitioners in this domain to help them understand requirement traceability techniques and existing visualization tools.
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Madaki, A.A., Zainon, W.M.N.W. (2022). A Review on Tools and Techniques for Visualizing Software Requirement Traceability. In: Mahyuddin, N.M., Mat Noor, N.R., Mat Sakim, H.A. (eds) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Robotics, Vision, Signal Processing and Power Applications. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 829. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8129-5_7
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