Empirical Analysis of the Impact of Requirements Traceability Quality to the Productivity of Enterprise Applications Development

The aim of our research is to empirically analyze the impact of requirements trace ability quality to the productivity of the enterprise applications development. We analyze trace ability links of Requirements Specification Documents (RSDs) collected from the enterprise applications development. These RSDs are classified into two groups in terms of project performance. One group includes RSDs of significant cost overrun projects, another group includes RSDs of normal range cost projects. Our analysis revealed that high quality of trace ability in RSDs significantly reduces the cost overrun in the enterprise applications development.