Initial project request: traceability exploration

Change request: Initial project request: traceability exploration STV_CR_001
status: implemented
basis: documented
evidence: docs/change-requests/STV_CR_001_initial-project-request.rst
priority: unassigned
verification_state: not_assessed

Origin and provenance

Original request date: 2026-10-18, as recorded in Sources and evidence. This retrospective record was created on 2026-10-24 at the owner’s request. It records the project-starting need, not an amendment to an existing baseline.

The full original prompt is unavailable in the conversation context used to create this record. The following is a reconstruction from the initial source register and its derived stakeholder requirements, not an exact quotation or a recovered transcript. Spelling and grammar are normalized. The original prompt is still needed to confirm its wording and scope. Later clarifications are not attributed to the initial request.

Reconstructed initial request

Provide an interactive traceability view embedded in an RST page, starting from a specified Sphinx-Needs object ID. Initially show the starting object with its traced relationships collapsed. Offer a plus-sign control for each relationship type to reveal related objects, allow further exploration from those objects, and allow opened relationships to be collapsed again. Readers should be able to inspect objects discovered during exploration.

Preserve the artifact hierarchy: stakeholder requirements above system requirements, system architecture between system and software requirements, and software architecture below software requirements. Display related test cases to the right of their associated artifacts.

Traceability and subsequent changes

The initial interpretation is represented by Embed a traceability view (STV_SHR_001), Select the starting object (STV_SHR_002), Initially collapse traced o... (STV_SHR_003), Offer expansion by traceabi... (STV_SHR_004), Reveal related objects (STV_SHR_005), Continue exploration (STV_SHR_006), Collapse opened traces (STV_SHR_007), Inspect discovered objects (STV_SHR_008), Preserve requirement levels (STV_SHR_009), Position system architecture (STV_SHR_010), Position software architecture (STV_SHR_011) and Position test evidence in c... (STV_SHR_012). These canonical records include later refinements; they are not a verbatim copy of the first prompt.

Later clarifications are recorded in Sources and evidence; starting-node changes are recorded in Starting-node requirement amendment. Current acceptance and verification remain in Project maturity. This record changes no requirements or statuses.