Traceability relationships

You can view certain UML relationships between model elements, specifications, and implementations.

The traceability feature includes the following UML relationships:

* Only these relationships are considered when reporting circular trace relationships.

Implied dependency relationships

Implied dependency relationships are traceability links that are derived from the elements in a model when no model element represents the dependency. For example, if a sequence diagram shows a message from one life object to another. The message between the life objects implies a static dependency between the model elements that the life objects represent.

An implied dependency between two UML elements occurs if any of the following situations are true:

Note: If one of the above situations is not true, an access violation error is listed in the Problems view. A model element that accesses a model element in another package without a Permission, Import Package, or Import Element relationship to the package of the target model element is an access violation that might not be resolvable.

The following use cases have implied dependency relationships:

Related tasks
Viewing model element relationship information in a table
Exporting model element relationship information
Viewing model element relationships in a diagram
Viewing model element relationships in a topic diagram
Viewing model element relationship issues
Viewing and analyzing model element relationships
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