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Jama Connect User Guide

Live Trace Explorer — BETA

The Live Trace Explorer provides an at-a-glance snapshot of the traceability of your product requirements. The generated diagram helps you easily evaluate coverage, address any gaps, and proactively manage associated risks.

The Live Trace Explorer helps you answer two key questions:

  • How complete is my traceability? Completeness is measured by the coverage percentage of the items in the diagram based on the relationship rules of your project.

  • What is the quality of my traceability? By looking at suspect links, we can measure the validity of your coverage.

To generate a diagram, select an item in the project tree, then select Live Trace Explorer diagram.

UI shows a product selected in the Explorer Tree with the Live Trace Explorer diagram option selected.

The diagram opens in a new browser tab.

The Live Trace Explorer diagram shows the overall trace score as well as any gaps between product requirements and related test cases.
Important considerations

  • An organization admin must first enable the Live Trace Explorer feature in Admin > Organization > Details before the option appears in Admin Project settings. For more information, see Enable Live Trace Explorer.

  • An organization or project admin must enable the Live Trace Explorer feature in Admin Project settings for a project before the option appears in Jama Connect for users with a creator license. Once the feature is enabled, those users can access the Live Trace Explorer, save existing diagrams, and modify them as needed. For more information, see Enable Live Trace Explorer for creators.

Your role determines the available interactions when you use the Live Trace Explorer feature.

These roles...

Can perform these actions...

Organization admins only

  • Enable Live Trace Explorer

Organization and project admins*

  • Enable Live Trace Explorer for a specific project for users with a creator license

  • Generate diagrams

  • View saved diagrams

  • Configure settings and modify a tile or entire diagram

  • Use Save as to create a copy of an existing diagram

  • Save new configuration settings

  • View Traceability Information Model

  • Export to PDF

  • Rename diagrams

  • Delete diagrams

Users with a creator license

  • View saved diagrams

  • Configure settings and modify a tile or entire diagram

  • Use Save as to create a copy of an existing diagram

  • Save new configuration settings (only if diagram owner)

  • View Traceability Information Model

  • Export to PDF

  • Rename diagrams (only if diagram owner)

  • Delete diagrams (only if diagram owner)

*Organization admins can access the Live Trace Explorer for all projects. Project admins can create new diagrams only in projects where they have admin permissions.

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