Requirements Traceability Management Support Tool for UML Models

Traceability between system requirements and the artifacts produced by the software development process contributes to the development of reliable software. This paper proposes a method of ensuring traceability by automatically generating an initial sequence diagram from an activity diagram; the activity diagram not only defines user-system interactions, but it also describes the feasibility of use cases via data modeling in a class diagram. These sequence diagrams evolve through changes that are made to the particulars of a system design; these sequence diagrams can be used to generate source code. As a result, the requirements can be traced to the program codes.