About the traceability explorer
In the Traceability Explorer, you can view the trace relationships between selected artifacts in a grid layout or matrix.
Note: Artifacts that are not covered are called orphaned and are displayed in red font.
To learn more on the topic of trace relationships, see Traceability and relationships.
The matrix lays out the trace relationships like an interactive Excel spreadsheet. The header rows and header columns contain any selected projects, folders and artifacts with direct hyperlinks to the original artifacts. At the center of the matrix, you can view the trace relationships that exist between the intersecting artifacts. The
The Traceability Explorer also allows you to do the following:
- After the matrix is generated, you can still change the scope and filter the relationships that are displayed. You can filter by relationship type, relationship direction, suspect flag and orphaned items (no specified relationships). After making changes, click the Generate Matrix button to re-generate the traceability matrix.
- You can click the Refresh button at any time to refresh the information in the traceability matrix. This can be useful if you modify artifacts and want the traceability matrix to reflect the changes.
- You can run cross-project coverage analysis. Simply click the drop-down below the search boxes on the Matrix Scope Selection dialog and select another project.
Tasks
Viewing trace relationships in a matrix
Exporting a traceability matrix to Microsoft Excel
Exporting a traceability matrix to Microsoft Word
