Requirements Traceability in Agile Methodologies: A Exploratory Survey

Agile methodologies are increasingly present in the industry. Known as a methodology that adapts easily to changes, which reduces risk and provides product creation quickly and safely, it has features such as: constant contact with the client, generation of releases at the end of each iteration, prioritizing what has more value to the client, in addition to embrace easily the changes requested. Being requirements traceability important when we think of changes as it facilitates activities such as impact analysis, it is possible to realize that it would be a very useful activity in the agile process. However, there are some challenges when trying to apply traceability in agile environments. This paper is aimed to perform an exploratory research to raise the main problems related to traceability in agile environments, thus collecting information to assist in raising requirements for a tool that supports traceability in agile environments, and perform pre-traceability inter-tracking and post-traceability.