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Traceability in Azure DevOps
Traceability in Azure DevOps means linking work items to each other and to code, builds, and tests, so a team can follow a requirement through to the work that delivers and verifies it. It turns Azure DevOps links into a chain that shows coverage and reveals what a change would affect.
What it means
Azure DevOps has the raw material for traceability built in: work items can be linked with relationships like parent, child, and tested-by, and connected to commits, pull requests, and test cases. Used consistently, those links let you start at a requirement and walk down to its tests, or start at a failing test and walk back to the requirement it threatens.
The limit is that Azure DevOps shows links item by item rather than rolling them into a complete, auditable matrix. For teams that need coverage reporting or an evidence pack for an audit, that gap is real. Modern Requirements builds a live traceability matrix from the same Azure DevOps links, so the view stays current as work items change instead of needing to be rebuilt by hand.
In practice
A medical software team links each requirement work item to its user stories and its test cases in Azure Test Plans. When a test fails, the reviewer follows the link straight to the requirement at risk. When they need to prove coverage for an audit, they generate a matrix from those links rather than assembling one manually.
FAQ
Does Azure DevOps support requirements traceability?
How do you create a traceability matrix in Azure DevOps?
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