When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM)
before testing aor after completion of testing?

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / prasanna_ny

As per my knowledge RTM ie prepared before the completion
of testing because RTM help you to keep track of the test
cases coverage at each level of testing.

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / mallikarjun

RTM maintain the relationship between client requirements
and test cases.Test cases are written before testing the
application. so we prepare RTM before testing.

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / prasad p.

Requirement Traceability Matrix (RTM) is prepared before
starts testing an application. As RTM is used to trace the
requirements with test cases. So after gathering
requirements RTM should pepare. The main purpose of RTM is,
no requirement should missed.

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / romeo

We prepare RTM after writing testcases to find whether we
missed an functionality.So it is prepared before executing
the testcases.

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / kishore

we are preparing RTM before the test execution is started
(or)after all the test cases are prepared.it is prepared by
test lead.

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / bhavya

RTM talks about the mapping up towors requrirement is
valied test cases to valied requirememt

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / sm

we should prepare RTM before starting testing life cycle
with all the test cases and with required columns like test
case status like New,Open,closed and defer

So before releasing a project we can say easily by looking
at this RTM whether all the test cases covered or not,and we
can able to see the test cases status easily.
so we need to prepare before testing process starts

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / sahil bhat

Requirements Traceability Matrix RTM is a deliverable of a requirement analysis and comes in the first phase of STLC. RTM is prepared before executing the test cases. It helps you to track each level of test. If you have any query you can contact me at [sahilbhat1986][at][hotmaildotcom]

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / sudheer padar

RTM is the document that maps requirements to the test
cases. by the help of Traceability matrix we can make ensure
that every requirement got at least 1 test case.

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When do you prepare Requirement Traceability Matrix(RTM) before testing aor after completion of tes..

Answer / vikram

I have very different scenario when should one start writing tractability Matrix.


If you starts with BRD -> FRD - >Test scenario -> Test case -> Expected result - >Status


Business Analyst must start with RTM by referring first two steps (BRD (Business Scenario) & FRD (detail specification of the scenario)) rest of the steps must be done at QA department.

Now look at the tractability matrix in reverse direction from status to BRD........ we are tracing requirement at very initial location i.e BRD. If Business Analyst is having acceptance test done at initial level then you have very sound BRD and FRD ready for development and testing.

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