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Requirements traceability is a sub-discipline of requirements management within software development and systems engineering.

Requirements traceability is defined as “the ability to describe and follow the life of a requirement in both a forwards and backwards direction (i.e., from its origins, through its development and specification, to its subsequent deployment and use, and through periods of ongoing refinement and iteration in any of these phases)”.

In the requirements engineering field, traceability is about understanding how high-level requirements – objectives, goals, aims, aspirations, expectations, needs – are transformed into low-level requirements.

It is therefore primarily concerned with satisfaction relationships between layers of information (aka artifacts).

However, traceability may document relationships between many kinds of development artifacts, such as requirements, specification statements, designs, tests, models and developed components.

For example, it is common practice to capture verification relationships to demonstrate that a requirement is verified by a certain test artifact.

Jira (stylized JIRA) is a proprietary issue tracking product, developed by Atlassian.

It provides bug tracking, issue tracking, and project management functions.

Although normally styled JIRA, the product name is not an acronym, but a truncation of Gojira, the Japanese name for Godzilla, itself a reference to Jira's main competitor, Bugzilla.

It has been developed since 2002.

In software testing, test automation is the use of special software (separate from the software being tested) to control the execution of tests and the comparison of actual outcomes with predicted outcomes.

Test automation can automate some repetitive but necessary tasks in a formalized testing process already in place, or perform additional testing that would be difficult to do manually.

Test automation is critical for continuous delivery and continuous testing.

Test management most commonly refers to the activity of managing the computer software testing process.

A test management tool is software used to manage tests (automated or manual) that have been previously specified by a test procedure.

It is often associated with automation software.

Test management tools often include requirement and/or specification management modules that allow automatic generation of the requirement test matrix (RTM), which is one of the main metrics to indicate functional coverage of a system under test (SUT).

Software quality assurance (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality.

The methods by which this is accomplished are many and varied, and may include ensuring conformance to one or more standards, such as ISO 9000 or a model such as CMMI.