Traceability

Traceability links requirements, risk control measures, design, code and tests. Auditors use it to check that every safety requirement was implemented and verified.

degree to which a relationship can be established between two or more products of the development PROCESS [IEEE 610.12:1990] NOTE Requirements, architecture, risk control measures, etc. are examples of deliverables of the development PROCESS.

IEC 62304:2006+AMD1:2015, clause 3.32