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Expand Up @@ -172,5 +172,32 @@ Change Request Traceability Impact Analysis Tool
It shall be reported, which work products and elements are affected by adding a new
feature or component or by a modification of an existing feature or component.

Below picture illustrates the relations:

.. figure:: ../_assets/impact_analysis.drawio.svg
:width: 100%
:align: center
:alt: Which changes to follow for impact analysis.

The picture is derived from the building blocks metamodel containing all the work products
(:ref:`general_concepts_building_blocks`). Its arrows show how every work product is
linked (manually) to other work products (e.g. feature requirements are linked to
stakeholder requirements via "satisfies"). The color code describes which of these Links
need to be followed for the impact analysis (so for the example this means: if a stakeholder
requirement is changed, the feature requirements linked are affected, but not the other way round).
"Black" links do not need to be followed, these are the "verifies" links. And these are
expected to fail after implementation change, so the impact on testing will be detected
by the test automation without the need for an additional tooling. Note that for some
links it is expected to have both directions followed (red arrows) - these are the
artefacts which reside in different repositories.

Note also: The impact analysis needs to follow the links iteratively, so first to the directly
connected work products, then to the next, ... (see the next illustration):

.. figure:: ../_assets/impact_iteration.drawio.svg
:width: 100%
:align: center
:alt: How to follow changes for impact analysis iteratively.

.. needextend:: docname is not None and "process_areas/change_management" in docname
:+tags: change_management
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