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10.8 Traceability Boundaries
Traceability has boundaries. The document set can preserve meaningful relationships without creating unnecessary administrative burden.
A Traceability relationship can exist when it supports architecture review, implementation mapping, deployment verification, Evidence collection, conformance assessment, audit, Governance and Authority, or impact analysis.
A Traceability relationship can identify enough information to support review, including:
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Source element
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Target element
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Relationship type
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Part, profile, or artefact containing the relationship
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Purpose of the relationship
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Evidence or review mechanism, where applicable
Traceability cannot imply that all details belong in the conceptual architecture. Part 1 defines the conceptual Traceability model. Later sections provide detailed Traceability matrices, mappings, deployment references, and Evidence records appropriate to their respective layers.