Agent-oriented development is emerging as the software development paradigm of this new century. Indeed, software developers
are using agents as a new metaphor for understanding, modeling, and implementing software that operates in dynamic, open,
and often unpredictable environments. The growth of interest in software agents has led to the development of new methodologies
based on agent concepts. However, requirements traceability has been recognized as an important prerequisite for developing
and maintaining high quality software. It is intended to ensure continued alignment between stakeholder requirements and various
outputs of the system development process. In this paper we present a general traceability framework, which can be used during
agent-oriented development. We also sketch an approach to enhance the Tropos methodology to support traceability. An e-commerce
case study is used to demonstrate the applicability of the approach.
Keywords requirements traceability - agent-oriented software development.