Traceability and impact analysis

The Query context menu in the Project Explorer provides commands for conducting traceability and impact analysis. When your model elements have links to requirements or collections, these queries treat such links as dependencies, and visualize them in a diagram. These visualizations can provide valuable insights about how model elements trace back to requirements (traceability analysis) or how changes to a requirement would impact the model (impact analysis). For example, the below impact analysis diagram (generated by means of the command Query – Impact Analysis – All Suppliers) shows how a class Globalize is impacted if certain requirements or other dependent classes (DateTimeFormatter) are modified.