How does software traceability affect scope creep in small software projects?

Abstract: This aim of this study is to examine the use of traceability in controlling the scope creep in a software development process in small projects. This study is done on a small project developed by KrisInCorp company to solve their problem of scope creep. Traceability was useful in sorting the requirements and other artifacts in one framework and the tool used produces graphs for the project artifacts and how are they related to each other, this makes it easy to detect the scope creep in the project.