Formation of requirements traceability in the process of information systems design

Abstract: The traceability of requirements in the information system design process is considered an essential property of the project, one of its quality characteristics. The point here is that traceability provides the methods of validation and verification of software systems, and that the system model based on requirements traceability reduces the system's dependence on developers and, in general, makes it as straightforward as possible. One of the challenges of the traceability process, dubbed "The grand challenge of traceability" among traceability researchers, is its integration into the design process. In this paper, to achieve this goal, we propose the application of the Adaptive Clustering Method (ACM) of Information Systems developed by the author, which is based on the idea of a seamless system architecture that provides explicit interconnection of project artifacts of different levels of abstraction.