Talk:Traceability

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Traceability goes far beyond the definition given here. That is also for exemple, all what is done to insure that at any step of an agricultural product transformation, from the field to the mouth, it is possible to know exactly where the food stuff comes from, and what treatements were made on it. ant

[edit] Traceability

Traceability does go farther than stated here (as another reviewer had mentioned). It is used widely in many industries including agriculture, business, government and others. While it has different meanings, in the computer world it is a requirement for any Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC)used by any of the development processes (Rational, etc.) and means tracing requirements back to the design through the User Requirements, Functional Specification, and full lifecycle. In the FDA world, this is a requirement for all of the Qualifications of a manufacturing or computerized system. These Qualifications are (in order): the Design Qualification (DQ), Installation Qualification (IQ), Operational Qualification (OQ) and Performance Qualification (PQ). Traceability is fulfilled by through tracing the qualification requirements for each of these documents. Note: While this term has been used extensively in the computer world to ensure quality validation and verification, oddly enough Microsoft Word has never recognized it as a recognized word in its dictionary and will always come up as a spelling error.

[edit] Non-notable external links

There are a lot of external links on this article, some of which I think should be removed:

If anyone can vouch that these are notable enough to include in this article, then I'll leave them. If not, I'll remove them in one week (16 November 2007). CoderGnome 19:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

The links have been removed CoderGnome (talk) 04:33, 18 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Traceability: Calibration

Traceability as related to calibration is often mistakenly thought of as only pertaining to the calibration side of the measurement process. This is not the case. The definition provided by the "International Vocabulary of Basic and General Terms in Metrology (VIM)" states "traceability [is a] property of the result of a measurement or the value of a standard...". This definition indicates that traceability extends to the measurement result and does not stop at the calibrated instrument. The subheading Calibration under the Traceability main heading promote this misunderstanding. I would recommend changing the subheading from calibration to measurement. --Bestshot (talk) 18:43, 29 March 2008 (UTC)