Especially in the development of safety-critical systems where standards and guidelines such as ISO 26262, Automotive SPICE, DO-178, IEC61508, IEC 62304 and EN 50128 require the collection of requirements traceability in order to demonstrate that critical requirements have been adequately implemented and validated, are making traceability highly relevant. Consistent traceability speeds up and improves development activities and helps to avoid programming errors. However, in today's development projects, capturing traceability information leads to high acquisition costs due to the sheer volume of requirements and the resulting design artifacts, source code, and test cases. The use of custom tools to create and manage requirements, software design, source code, or software testing often does not allow for cross-tool traceability. Not infrequently, complex analyzes are necessary because artefacts are not linked directly but indirectly via other artifacts.
In this talk, Boris Holzer from itemis AG and Ingo Nickles from Vector Software tackle the biggest challenges with solutions and show a consistent traceability-implementation from requirement to model and source code to testing of individual modules.

