A fully green traceability matrix can make it look as though requirements are properly covered. Yet a link between a requirement and a test does not prove that the test actually verifies every required behavior. Requirements coverage gaps can remain when tests are incomplete, when a requirement evolves without its tests following, or when a test changes while its traceability link remains intact. This article proposes a simple way to detect them: first understand how they arise, then structure the review by comparing explicitly required behaviors with what the linked tests actually demonstrate. share share share share
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