Why AI Will Force Software Engineering to Embrace Formal Traceability — Whether You Like It or Not
For decades full artifact traceability — requirements, stories, test cases, models, code — etc, has been difficult to accomplish in software engineering. Everyone agrees it’s important — especially in regulated, safety-critical, or long-lived systems — but few teams truly “enjoy” implementing it. Traceability is often seen as overhead: something added late, maintained reluctantly, and justified primarily by audits or compliance. AI may change […]