Traceability reports trace linked artifacts across a project
lifecycle. You can use predefined report templates to generate traceability
reports about the elements, requirements, test artifacts, and defects
of selected projects.
IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ includes
three predefined report templates for traceability reporting. To adjust
these templates to work with applications for the Rational solution for Collaborative
Lifecycle Management (CLM), a license for IBM Rational Publishing
Engine is required. However, that license is not required to run the
reports from Rational Focal Point.
The predefined report templates are as follows:
- Statement of Compliance
- With this report, you can determine which requirements are linked
to business needs in your Rational Focal Point projects.
The report displays the relationships between these components:
- High-level elements in Rational Focal Point,
such as projects
- Linked elements in Rational Focal Point,
such as business needs
- Linked requirements in the Requirements Management (RM) application
- Statement of Verification
- With this report, you can view the results of tests that are based
on requirements that link to business needs in your Rational Focal Point projects.
You can also determine any defects that correspond to those tests.
The report displays the relationships between these components:
- High-level elements in Rational Focal Point,
such as projects
- Linked elements in Rational Focal Point,
such as business needs
- Linked requirements in the RM application
- Linked test cases in the Quality Management application for the
- Related execution records with test environment in the Quality
Management application
- Execution results in the Quality Management application
- Related defects in the Change and Configuration Management (CCM)
application
- Release Readiness Report
- With this report, you can determine the defects for requirements
that correspond to business needs in your Rational Focal Point projects.
The report displays the relationships between these components:
- High-level elements in Rational Focal Point,
such as projects
- Linked elements in Rational Focal Point,
such as business needs
- Linked requirements in the RM application
- Related defects in the CCM application