Requirements Tools Survey
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Requirements Tools
Tool Name: CaseComplete version 2.5
Company Name: Serlio Software
Contact detail URL: http://www.serlio.com/casecomplete/
Case Complete is a tool to help you author, manage and share use cases and requirements.
Whether you are part of a diverse team or working solo, an expert author or a novice, Case
Complete will help you write use cases and requirements faster and easier, that have excellent
compliance with use case standards.
Once you have written your use cases and requirements, Case Complete lets you leverage this
valuable data by integrating it with other phases of the software development lifecycle: generate
test plans, project plans and UML models directly from Case Complete.
Tool Name: Catalyze
Company Name: SteelTrace
Contact detail URL: http://www.steeltrace.com//
The Catalyze Suite of products provides a pragmatic approach for organizations to quickly and
easily capture business and system requirements with a 40% per project ROI with little training
or deployment expenditure necessary.
Unlike traditional RM tools, Catalyze takes a more structured view of requirements breaking them
into Functional (in the form of a use case like storyboard structure of main flow, alternative flows
etc.) and Non-functional requirements (qualities and constraints). Catalyze automatically
generates graphical flows directly form text and maintains text and graphics in lockstep.
Catalyze Professional is the single user version while Catalyze Enterprise is the multi-user variant.
SteelTrace offers native integrations from Catalyze into leading UML modeling tools Rational Rose
and Borland Together Solo and Control Center. The integrations are bi-directional with UML Use
Case and Activity diagrams being automatically generated. Comprehensive test documentation is
also automatically generated from the same project. Customizable MS Word profiles allow the
same Catalyze project generate to multiple document formats that are round-trippable back to
the Catalyze project.
Catalyze Enterprise is designed for teams who are collaborating on requirements gathering and
capture by updating and sharing a project. Catalyze Enterprise supports multiple loading of
repository projects, a requirement level locking mechanism, the ability to go 'offline' and the
ability for users to reconcile offline changes back into the master project. Catalyze Enterprise also
lets multiple users simultaneously work on a project or project package. Catalyze Enterprise
provides all the functionality of Catalyze Professional, including the UML integrations.
Catalyze Enterprise uses a client-server approach and stores projects in an industry standard SQL
database (out of box support for MySQL & Oracle 9i). It allows text search across all database
projects (including unloaded projects) meaning that information sharing becomes reality in the
enterprise.
Catalyze is tightly integrated with tools from the following leading vendors in the UML/MDA
modeling space; Compuware (Optima1J Integration), IBM (Rational Rose Integration) and
Borland (Together Integration).
These integrations enable Catalyze projects to be opened in the appropriate UML modeling tool.
This means that once the requirements are captured in Catalyze, the technical team can
immediately see the requirements expressed as technical UML thus allowing them to build exactly
what is required. This ensures that all the information and business logic is carried over,
increasing the probability that the requirements will be met.
There is a fully functional download at:
http://www.steeltrace.com/download_enterprise_evaluate.asp
Tool Name: ClearSpecs Composer
Company Name: LiveSpecs Software
Contact detail URL: http://www.livespecs.com/
ClearSpecs Composer enables requirements developers to communicate the features, functions,
and specifications of a product or system with greater clarity, so that product developers can fully
understand, build, and test the intended product or system. It includes a requirements-savvy
word processor that offers a balance between the high cost, complexity, and rigidity of a fullblown requirements management solution, and the inaccuracy of a natural language
requirements document generated by a standard word processor.
ClearSpecs main features include:
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Support for the ClearSpecs Specification Techniques: Application glossaries, action
contracts, use cases and user acceptance test specs
Active Templates: Help users easily create and update application glossaries, action
contracts, use cases, and manual test procedures
Specification Analyzer: Automatically analyzes both detailed specs (use cases, test
procedures, action contracts) and your current specs and identifies both actual and
potential problems.
Usage Simulator: Traces paths through use cases and action contracts so that you
can picture usage scenarios and determine outcomes when users interact with your
product or system.
Web-based Information Sharing: Requirements are developed on the desktop, but
can be shared with colleagues through HTML on an Intranet, or via email attachments in
Word or PDF format.
Data Sharing with other tools: Ability to share data with requirements management
systems, UML modelers, test managers, and automatic test designers.
Tool Name: Cradle Version 5.2
Company Name: 3SL (Structured Software Systems Ltd)
Contact detail URL: http://www.threesl.com/
Cradle is a multi-user, multi-project, systems engineering environment that spans the entire
systems and software development lifecycle. Building on an infinitely scalable, arbitrarily
extensible, distributed and web-enabled repository, Cradle provides a suite of tools that integrate
all project phases, activities and deliverables within a single, configuration managed, access
controlled framework. You can tailor this framework to your projects, combining desktop tools
such as Word and Excel, with your specialist engineering and project management tools and
corporate PDM / EDM solution into a seamlessly managed whole that can be distributed sitewide, company-wide or project-wide using web and non-web technologies.
Cradle can be used as a web portal to all project information, as an integrated systems
engineering environment or you can use just one of its component point tools. Cradle is modular,
with tools built around a central Project Data Management module that provides powerful
infrastructure capabilities.
Cradle provides a requirements capture facility that scans customer statements and extracts
requirements, assumptions and/or domain knowledge, creating cross references back to the
original document. When new versions of such documents are registered, Cradle finds the
differences and provides an impact assessment. Cradle is fully integrated with Word, Excel and
PDF, as well as other text formats.
Business, operating, user, system and derived requirements can be captured and evolved.
Support tools identify duplication, omission and ambiguity, and conduct coverage analyses.
Interactive Non Functional Requirement Graphs (NFRGs) and Hierarchy Diagrams graphically
illustrate the linkage within and to/from requirements sets.
Requirements can be linked to a wide variety of UML, use case, functional, behavioral, dynamic
and architectural models, grouped within multiple model domains. Requirements can be allocated
to use cases, functions, business processes, operational sequences, which in turn can be
allocated to functions, classes etc within components of equipments in multiple candidate
architectures. Performance assessment and budget aggregation and apportionment within and
across these architectures are fully supported, together with the means to develop these models
to hardware and software, including the generation and reverse engineering of source code.
All project activities are defined within a project schema that identifies project phases, data types
and rules, and links and rules. The Cradle multi-user, infinite-capacity, repository can manage
any volume of any data, allowing requirements (and other item types) to contain text, figures,
tables, graphics, audio and data of any type. Database items can link to data in external objects,
URLs and data held in external databases, including corporate PDM / EDM solutions.
Cradle provides a user-definable metrics capability, to monitor and manage the evolving
requirements sets, and data of all other types.
Cradle is fully web-based, providing RO and RW web access from customizable web front-ends.
All tools support hierarchy and editable tables with user definable queries, views and forms. Web
publishing to HTML, XML and SVG is provided.
Tool Name: Domino Web Access
Company Name: Lotus Software from IBM
Contact detail URL: http://www.lotus.com/
Product URL: http://www.lotus.com/products/product1.nsf/wdocs/webaccesshome
Lotus Domino Web Access is the flexible, high-function Web browser-based client option to use
the reliable, security-rich messaging and collaboration capabilities of IBM Lotus Domino server,
online and offline. A member of the IBM Workplace family, Lotus Domino Web Access leverages
the latest Web browser technologies to offer capabilities designed to help companies increase
employee productivity, facilitate decision making, and improve business responsiveness. Lotus
Domino Web Access is available in two offerings: Lotus Domino Web Access for Messaging
(access to messaging functions) and Lotus Domino Web Access for Collaboration (both
messaging and applications).
Tool Name: DOORS
Company Name: Telelogic AB
Company URL: http://www.telelogic.com/
Product URL: http://www.telelogic.com/corp/products/doors/
DOORS (Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System) is an Information Management and
Traceability (IMT) tool. Requirements are handled within DOORS as discrete objects. Each
requirement can be tagged with an unlimited number of attributes allowing easy selection of
subsets of requirements for specialist tasks. DOORS includes an on-line change proposal and
review system that lets users submit proposed changes to requirements, including a justification.
DOORS offers unlimited links between all objects in a project for full multi-level traceability.
Impact and traceability reports as well as reports identifying missing links are all available across
all levels or phases of a project life cycle. Verification matrices can be produced directly or output
in any of the supported formats including RTF for MS-Word, Interleaf and FrameMaker. The
DOORS Extension Language (DXL) is a high level C-like language that provides access to virtually
all DOORS functions for user extensions and customization. DOORS includes the following
functionality:
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Control of data model for process management allows user to manage the relationship
between data fully including its direction, type and even whether a relationship is
allowed.
Improved security control through the use of passwords, and timeouts which "lock up"
DOORS after a specified period of inactivity.
New templates to make document generation easier have been added to the DOORS
template library. New templates include ISO 12207, ISO 6592 and IEEE software
standards.
The DOORS family of sulutions include the following:
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DOORS: Requirements Management for co-located teams
DOORS XT: Requirements Management for global enterprises
DOORS/Analyst: Requirements modeling within Requirements Management
DOORSnet: Web access to Requirements Management
Tool Name: EasyRM Version 1.06
Company Name: Cybernetic Intelligence GmbH
Product URL: http://www.easy-rm.ch/
EasyRM requirement manager is a component-based CASE tool targeting initial stages of project
life cycle, when the project framework has been established, project requirements are gathered
and synchronized and glossaries of project-specific terms and phrases are compiled. EasyRM
provides users with the following facilities:
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Creation, description, modification and progress tracking of project requirements.
Classification of requirements, including the ability to have several independent
classifications of the same requirement set.
Specification of relationships between requirements, including requirement
decompositions, dependencies, correlations, conflicts, etc.
Maintenance of semantic links from requirements to glossary terms and phrases used in
requirement specifications
Maintenance of traceability links from requirements to information sources where these
requirements have originated.
The individual areas of the EasyRM architecture are briefly described below:
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EasyRM Core: The EasyRM Core consists of those components which are mandatory in
any working EasyRM configuration.
EasyRM Tools: A modeless editor of a currently open requirements database (or its
subset). The modeless nature of EasyRM tools allows several EasyRM tools to be active
at the same time.
EasyRM Report Generators: A modal component which, when activated, creates a
presentation of the currently active database (or its subset) in a human-readable form.
EasyRM Add-Ons: A modal tool which automates complex database
maintenance/access/modification tasks.
EasyRM Editors: A modeless extension which supports storage of documents in a
particular format directly in EasyRM databases as local documents and allows user to edit
local documents stored in this format.
EasyRM Import Filters: Allow EasyRM to read information from files belonging to
other applications (e.g. CSV, MS Excel, MS Access, etc.).
EasyRM Export Filters: Allow exporting information from EasyRM to third-party
programs.
Tool Name: Focal Point
Company Name: Telelogic AB
Contact URL: http://www.telelogic.com/
Product URL: http://www.telelogic.com/campaigns/focalpoint/index.cfm
Telelogic Focal Point is the most comprehensive decision making solution on the market for
Portfolio Management and Product Management. The only fully Web-based decision support
system, Focal Point enables organizations to accurately determine, manage and monitor the best
product or project portfolio based on business objectives, customer needs, costs and available
resources.
Bringing together unique ‘what-if’ scenario analysis capabilities and visualization techniques,
this decision making software improves Product Management and Portfolio Management by
enhancing stakeholder collaboration, prioritization, decision making, competitor intelligence,
scenario planning, information visualization, portfolio optimization, customer profiling and other
business intelligence activities.
Focal Point is already helping major product development and IT organizations like AstraZeneca,
ABB, and Sony Ericsson to optimize their business and product decision making.
The Focal Point Platform enables companies to:
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Identify customers and customer requirements;
Map similarities and differences in customer requirements;
Let customers value and prioritize their requirements;
Map similarities and differences in customer prioritization;
Integrate customers in the Focal Point solution to suggest and follow-up on
requirements;
Structure requirements dynamically and visualize them through in different ways;
Define requirement attributes;
Manage interdependent requirements;
Observe changes in the requirements;
Role-based user management;
Manage access to information based on role;
Cost estimate requirements;
Analyze requirements statistics;
Model requirements based on the competence required to satisfy them;
Connect requirements to customers, markets, competitors and gaps;
Automate requirement calculations in Excel type environments;
Define and produce reports based on the customers own templates;
Examine requirements with built in check lists;
Measure requirement flow to locate obstacles in the process;
Automate the identification of requirement similarities;
Automate the identification of requirement interdependency;
Co-operate and communicate with product management, customers, developers and
users regarding requirements;
Integrate requirements management with portfolio management, market segmentation,
prioritization and release planning;
Prioritize requirements and product contents.
Focal Point's rich set of capabilities to improve decision making include:
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Project portfolio management and optimization
Product management decision support
Risk management
Customer Management and collaboration
Competitor intelligence
Prioritization methods to find the core value
Information visualization
Integration with Telelogic DOORS to link business decisions about products, projects or
features to detailed engineering requirements
Tool Name: Foresight Version 5.3.1
Company Name: Foresight Systems Inc.
Contact detail URL: http://www.foresightsystems-mands.com/
Foresight is an integrated modeling and simulation tool suite that provides a complete
environment for system design space exploration. The Foresight tool suite includes the following
capabilities:
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A graphical model editor allows rapid capture of designer's intent for data flow diagrams
(DFDs), state transition diagrams (STDs), mini-specifications Mini-Specs.
Comments and annotation text/graphics can also be included to facilitate model
documentation.
A robust and proven modeling language with semantically rich constructs for use within
data flow diagrams, state transition diagrams, and Mini-Specs. (Mini-Specs are short
procedural code components.)
Libraries of common model building blocks that can be used in data flow diagrams to
facilitate model development.
A data dictionary and static analyzer ensure correct connection and enforce syntactic
rules.
A high performance discrete event simulator for model execution.
A model debugger allows rapid, interactive debugging and analysis of models.
A data visualization tool allows for post-simulation data analysis. Data can also be output
in common textual forms for input into spreadsheets or other analysis tools.
A model compiler allows for compilation of models into stand-alone executables which
can be used by non-Foresight users for trade studies.
Capture requirements via links to tools such as DOORS.
Link to lower level tools, such as MATLAB and tools for SOC Co-Simulation.
The Foresight Design Suite also includes the following:
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Foresight Co-Design: All of the above capabilities of Foresight plus co-simulation with
Mentor Graphics Seamless CVE and ModelSim. Mixed level analysis enables detailed HW
and SW models to be run with the full system model.
FS/CoderC: Automatic generation of C++ code from your Foresight system models.
Can be used to create: fast, batch simulations of your models and standalone prototypes
of your system.
FS/RQIF: Requirements traceability interfaces to third-party requirements management
tools
FS/Bridgeway: Cosimulation backplane and SDK, for linking other simulations or
applications to the Foresight simulations over TCP/IP.
Tool Name: Gatherspace
Company Name: Gatherspace
Contact detail URL: http://www.gatherspace.com/
Gatherspace.com is a powerful, yet simple online requirements management and use case tool
for centralizing, modeling and sharing software requirements.
Built for the developer, the business analyst, the project manager, and the owner, you will easily
and quickly build and share your requirements database and produce meaningful reports. It's key
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This is a non-installable software where 100% of the functionality is online
The site allows the organization of features, requirements and use cases, and provides
real useable artifacts with the help of a "To Do" list
The site evolves based on the needs of the users
The tool is free and will remain so in the foreseeable future
Tool Name: IBM Rational RequisitePro v2003.06.15
Company Name: IBM Rational Software
Company URL: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/
Product URL: http://www-306.ibm.com/software/awdtools/reqpro/
The IBM Rational RequisitePro solution is a requirements and use case management tool for
project teams who want to improve the communication of project goals, enhance collaborative
development, reduce project risk and increase the quality of applications before deployment.
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Uses advanced integration with Microsoft Word to provide a familiar environment for
activities such as requirements definition and organization
Incorporates a powerful database infrastructure with real-time Word document
synchronization to facilitate requirements organization, integration and analysis
Enables detailed attribute customization and filtering to maximize informative value of
each requirement
Provides detailed traceability views that display parent/child relationships and show
requirements that may be affected by upstream or downstream change.
Performs project-to-project comparisons using exportable XML-based project baselines
Integrates with multiple tools in the IBM Software Development Platform to improve
accessibility and communication of requirements
Tool Name: iRise
Company Name: IRise
Contact detail URL: http://www.irise.com/
iRise is the world’s first solution used by business people to quickly assemble a working preview
of business systems. iRise simulations let business people, end users and developers interact with
critical business systems before development. The visual representation of the application looks
and behaves like the real thing, including data interactions and business logic, so everyone
literally gets on the same page. iRise simulations are interactive, unambiguous blueprints for
what to build, eliminating expensive change orders, bringing projects to market on time and
ensuring the final result will be adopted by end users. The iRise family of products includes:
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iRise Studio - iRise Studio is a powerful, easy-to- use application definition solution
used by business experts to quickly assemble functionally rich simulations of Web-based
applications in a matter of hours. iRise Studio is used for new custom applications,
portals, enhancements to existing systems and Web-based front-ends to packaged
software. Business people can quickly lay out the page flow of simulations and create
high fidelity pages that precisely mimic not only the look and feel of the final application,
but the business logic and data interactions as well.
iRise iDoc - Stakeholders can have fun with application simulations that encourage
dialog, drive consensus and quickly iterate to specifications that act as visual blueprints
for what to build. Business analysts publish simulations as interactive definition
documents, or iDocs, then present them to stakeholders for review. Rather than pages
and pages of text and screen shots, stakeholders now have an interactive, functionally
rich preview of how the final application will look and behave. They can test drive the
simulation as if it were the real thing. Walkthrough notes help guide the review process
and feedback comments can be sent to the business analyst with the click of a button.
iRise Reader - Using iRise Reader, anyone anywhere in the world can interact with a
functionally rich iRise 5 simulation by opening a self-contained iDoc. The iRise Reader
client software, which includes a sample iDoc, is available for free via https://irisereader.subscribenet.com/control/irir/signup
Tool Name: IRqA (Integral Requisite Analyzer)
Company Name: TCP Sistemas e Ingenieria
Contact detail URL: http://www.irqaonline.com/
IRqA is a state-of-the-art Requirements Engineering (RE) tool, focused on information
exploitation. It is specifically designed to provide an integral support to the complete
Requirements Engineering process:
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Requirements Capture and Management
Requirements Analysis
System Specification
Specification Validation (system specification vs requirements)
Acceptance Tests definition
Requirements Organization & Classification
In IRqA the specification cycle is supported via standard models and the tool provides a powerful
set of modeling capabilities:
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Problem Domain Models (UML class diagrams and entity-relationship diagrams)
Use Case diagrams
Context diagrams and DFDs
State diagrams
Graphical representation of the Requirements Engineering process deployed in the
organization or in the specific project
IRqA allows to easily see and create traceability links between specification elements such as
different types of requirements, requirements and use cases, acceptance tests, etc.
Tool Name: MockupScreens v1.41
Company Name: MockupScreens
Contact detail URL: http://mockupscreens.com
Igor Jese has released new version of MockupScreens, a rapid screen prototyping tool which
enables you to quickly and easily create screen mockups of your application and organize them in
scenarios. MockupScreens main design goals are ease of use and productivity. New version is
available for free download.
With MockupScreens you can create screens, add screen elements (buttons, text fields, grids,
etc) and populate them with data, and finally organize screens in scenarios and export them to
images. In addition to common screen elements (buttons, fields, lists, etc) you can define
multiple elements at once (e.g. textfield with label, etc). Mockups purposefully avoid the
possibility to be mistaken for the real application screens. MockupScreens productivity features
include intuitive interface, consistent keyboard shortcuts, context sensitive help, creating new
screens from existing ones and changing the type of screen elements at will.
Evaluation copy and screenshots are available on the web site. Registration key is available on
demand.
Tool Name: MooD Transformation Toolset
Company Name: The Salamander Organization
Contact detail URL: http://www.tsorg.com/
Ongoing close co-operation with customers and partners has enabled the development of the
MooD Transformation Toolset so that the technologies address the real challenges in the process
of business transformation today and in the future.
At its core, the software creates and manages a visual and configurable model of the business.
The model gives a common language across the business to shape new solutions and support
change - all initiatives are able to reference and build upon a common base and shared view of
the business - all stored in a single underpinning repository.
Making the business model live: Activation - a Salamander patented technology - enables the
business designs to become the 'live' system by connecting the design components with their real
world counterparts (e.g. knowledge, data, systems). Not only is the business model the common
reference point for business developments and change - improving and communicating how it
works, it is now an active part of running and governing the business on a day-today basis.
Along with the Business Integration Engine - based on industry standards (XML and Web
Services), this enables the business models to be used as the integrating force for related
initiatives across a business.
Tool Name: Notes 7
Company Name: Lotus Software from IBM
Company URL: http://www.lotus.com/
Product URL: http://www.lotus.com/products/product4.nsf/wdocs/noteshomepage
Notes is not a requirements tool as such, but is very effective place to store requirements
specifications. Set up a new Notes database for each specification, and give access to all the
stakeholders. Use DocLinks to link to documents that have some relation to your specification interview notes, meeting minutes. Attach the function point counts to the requirements, then link
each of them to the appropriate design documents. Release 5 now includes a bookmark bar that
creates quick links to frequently needed information and support for a universal Internet mailbox
- whether they're on a Lotus Domino server or hosted by an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
Tool Name: Objectiver
Company Name: Cediti
Contact URL: http://www.objectiver.com/
Objectiver has been designed by RE practitioners to enable real requirements engineering. The
tool relies on Kaos, a goal driven methodology and enables users to have a global overview on
the system and a systematic link between all the models representing the system. Analysts have
the possibility to draw diagrams and to define concepts (like goals, requirements, agent, entities,
events, relationships, actions,...) and relationships over those concepts (like refinement, conflict,
operationalisation, responsibility, capability, performance, specialization, causes and so on).
Diagrams can be explained with text documents including references to concepts elicited in the
diagrams. All these pieces of information can then be put together to generate a requirements
document compliant with predefined standards. Key advantages of Objectiver are the following:
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it enables analysts to elicit and specify requirements in a systematic way,
it produces well structured, self-contained, motivated, easily understandable, standard
requirements documents,
it provides highly effective way to communicate about the requirements,
it ensures traceability from requirements to goals and from high-level, coarse-grained
behavioral specifications to requirements.
Objectiver is also very easy to understand and can be used by anyone, because it is packaged
with a web generation tool that permits to share your processes, goals, and so on with all the
employees to the organization. Its main features are:
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Automatic generation of RFQ/RFP
Goal driven requirements analysis
Multiple views on documents with easy navigation
Completeness and consistency checks
Traceability inside models, source, output documents
Queries
Tool Name: OSRMT Open Source Requirements Management Tool
Website and open source community: http://www.osrmt.com
Primary author and contact: Aron Smith
OSRMT, an acronym for Open Source Requirements Management Tool, has forms for each
'artifact' - features, requirements, design items, source code and test cases. Each group of
artifacts can be arranged in a tree hierarchy, sorted, searched, filtered and reported upon.
Artifacts themselves also have subcomponents - so within a form you can fill out a small table/list
of items - details to the artifact such as data dictionary elements, use case actions, test case
steps etc.
All the 'reference' data that drives the application is stored in the database allowing for a high
level of cusotmization. Administrators can define their own type of artifacts and customize every
form layout to meet the specific needs - add/remove controls, change order, made fields
required, change the labeling, customize the drop down lists of values for status, priority,
category and more.
OSRMT is at version 1.1 and while there is currently no support for round trip updates with
source documents - you can store (attach) documents to any artifact and create links to files or
URLs. All artifact changes file away a historic version of the artifact and the administrator can
baseline all artifacts for the selected product.
Traceability is handled in a couple of ways - you can select an artifact and browse for the
dependent counterpart - or the easier method is to simply drag one artifact on top of another to
create the dependency. Dependencies are powerful if kept current and accurate. If you need to
change a component - bit it a bug in the source file, requirement, design or feature - you can use
OSRMT to trace up and down the impact on the system - highlighting which test cases must be
used to validate the change. Version 1.1 even comes with a rudimentary impact graph based
upon the traceability.
Import/export is from and to XML so converting spreadsheets or other data sources is quite
feasible. You can build your own reports - although you need to learn Jasper reports to add them
to the application. Of course you can take your favourite reporting tool and plug it into the
OSRMT database - of which many are supported - Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, MS Access. Since
the application professes to use clean SQL, JDBC, connection ooling and external configuration
files - adding another database is simply creating the schema, adding the jdbc driver and away
you go.
The application is written using Swing, JBoss J2EE although there are community discussions
around adding a web browser client or configuring the application to run over the internet. All
and all being only 2 months old there is a lot of promise behind OSRMT.
Tool Name: Poseidon for UML Version 3.2.1
Company Name: Gentleware
Contact detail URL: http://www.gentleware.com/index.php
Poseidon for UML is a popular, fully-fledged UML CASE tool. It evolved from the open-source
project ArgoUML and has turned it into a world-class modelling tool. Today, it has the fastest
growing user community and is famous for its superior usability. Poseidon for UML is delivered in
several editions to meet the needs of different users:
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Community Edition - Perfect for students, beginners, and other non-commercial users,
this free edition is the ideal introduction to UML, complete with Java forward engineering.
Standard Edition - Aimed at analysts, this edition makes quick and easy work of
designing and documenting models with Java reverse engineering, UMLdoc, and plug-in
extensions.
Professional Edition - Developers will find a full suite of powerful features such as an
Eclipse integration, Java roundtrip engineering, and code generation for many other
languages.
Enterprise Edition - Teams of developers can use real-time collaboration functions and
versioning coupled with standalone Java roundtrip engineering to develop software
across the room or across the globe.
Embedded Enterprise Edition - Embedded system developers can use the team
capabilities of the enterprise edition with c and c++ generation specifically designed for
embedded systems, along with Java reverse engineering.
Tool Name: QFD/Capture Version 4
Company Name: International TechneGroup Incorporated (ITI)
Contact detail URL: http://www.qfdcapture.com/
This approaches requirements from the Quality Function Deployment (QFD) view. There are two
varieties of this product: professional and network edition. They supply predefined project
templates with predefined calculations and linkages for many of the most common approaches to
QFD. Relationships can be defined in alternative ways, using direct input into a spreadsheet or
generate relationship tree diagrams showing measures for each requirement in a graphical tree
and branch format. Requirements are linked across as project; changes in one area are reflected
throughout the project. The network version of QFD/Capture can be installed on a server and
accessed by a number of users simultaneously.
Tool Name: RDD-100 Version 4.1.2
Company Name: Holagent Corporation
Contact detail URL: http://www.holagent.com/
RDD-100 is a Requirements Driven Development (RDD) software suite that uses several
mechanisms to aid the user in analyzing and identifying requirements. These include a parser
tool that can be defined and developed to help the user identify single or compound
requirements. RD-100 allows the user to categorize requirements in a specific manner, the rules
for this categorization can be captured and automated. RDD-100 captures and traces
requirements using its Element Relationship Attribute (ERA) repository, where each source
document, and the text for each requirement, is stored as a separate element. Graphical
hierarchies show how individual pieces of data relate to each other and trace back to their
sources. The tool can extract requirements from ASCII form documents. RD-100 also provides
the user the capability to interactively manipulate and input data through a variety of diagrams
including Behavior Diagrams, Hierarchical Views, Functional Flow Diagrams, N2 charts, IDEF0 and
Data Flow Diagrams
Tool Name: RDD.COM Version 1.2
Company Name: Holagent Corporation
Contact detail URL: http://www.holagent.com/
RDD.COM is used for complex hardware and information systems design and re-engineering. It
provides collaborating teams with the ability to engineer and manage requirements with
integrated static and dynamic behavior models. Using RDD.COM throughout the lifecycle, a team
can capture, record, and report progress on the development of the requirements. The status of
the requirements, assumptions, analyses, issues, decisions, and risk assessments associated with
a requirement can be ascertained. RDD.COM provides engineers with a repository in which data
and model baselines can be stored, accessed, and compared throughout the lifecycle. Using
these baselines, users can:
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Capture source requirements
Elicit requirements and use models to clarify expectations
Establish feasibility of alternatives based on resource and cost constraints
Rigorously define and engineer requirements
Analyze effects of system failures
Define and design the behavior of system interfaces
Refine behavior into discrete processes allocate behavior to architectural alternatives
Compare and contrast model and data baselines throughout the entire lifecycle
Re-use sets of engineering data and models
Refine engineering design with increasing levels of detail
Support process-specific engineering environment through an open Public API
Tool Name: Requirements Assistant(TM)
Company Name: Sunny Hills Consultancy BV
Contact detail URL: http://www.requirementsassistant.nl/
Requirements Assistant(TM) is a tool that analyzes requirements, written in a natural language. It
detects incompleteness, inconsistency, vagueness, ambiguity in sentences, in paragraphs, and in
a set of requirements.
Tool Name: Serena Dimensions RM
Company Name: Serena Software ,Inc.
Contact detail URL: http://www.serena.com/
Product URL: http://www.serena.com/Products/dimensions/dimensions-requirements.html
An essential component of Serena Dimensions 10, Dimensions RM ensures that project teams
effectively collect and refine project requirements. Dimensions RM allows enterprises to
effectively manage change in requirements during the project lifecycle. Dimensions RM
automates requirements management throughout the development lifecycle, making it easy to:
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Gather and logically link associated requirements
Collaborate on requirements definitions
Baseline requirements for project milestones
Understand the impact of requirement changes
Link requirements to development projects
Report on requirements definition, baselines, change impact, and traceability
Tool Name: Reconcile Version 2.0
Company Name: Compuware Corporation
Company URL: http://www.compuware.com/
Reconcile is a requirements management tool that uses the MS Word architecture. Reconcile
requires minimal initial resource investment and full integration with popular development and
testing tools minimizes learning curves and switching tasks. This requirements management tool
provides a flexible and easy-to-use requirements model. Pre-defined requirement types are
available and easily modified by project or across multiple projects. Reconcile offers a web
interface to allow sharing of any Reconcile report across the Internet or an Intranet, using its
own integrated reporting and publishing tools. In addition the following functionality is provided:
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Track the source of each requirement, including its priority and status.
Correlate open defect issues to users original requirements.
Issues and defects identified during testing or development can be immediately
associated with the requirement that is affected, allowing team members to assess the
impact.
Testing requirements generated in Reconcile can be used to automatically generate or
update a QADirector automated test suite.
Tool Name: Reqtify version 2.1
Company Name: TNI-Software
Company URL: http://www.tni-software.com/
Product URL: http://users.reqtify.tni-software.com/?p=home
Reqtify is a requirements monitoring tool. It takes the formalized requirements produced by the
requirements activity and monitors their implementation throughout the rest of the project's
lifecycle. Reqtify effectively manages requirements traceability and impact analysis across the
project's entire lifecycle, enabling quality development in both hardware and software projects.
New features in Reqtify 2.1 include:
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Features for collaborative work
Graphical view : zoom, moves and resizing of documents are now allowed
Powerful analysis of multiple word documents
Improvement of the Reports Generation & Customization capabilities
Improvements of the Doors interface
Improvements of the Rhapsody interface
Tool Name: RMTrak
Company Name: RBC Product Development
Company URL: http://www.rbccorp.com/
Product URL: http://www.rmtrak.com/
RMTrak is a requirements management tool that uses a document centric approach that allows
users to update the requirements independently from the tool. RMTrak makes use of the MS
Word environment to track changes made to requirements, and the facility to designate a
requirement manually by visually marking the text within MS Word. RMTrak provides multiple
views (matrix, tree, allocation) to allow the user to access the requirements visually. The tool
includes basic requirements traceability analysis tools, like the ability to view childless
requirements and orphans within an included report. Key features include:
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Easy To Use - Proposal teams, program managers, or development team members can
learn RMTrak and be up and running in less than one day. There is no formal training
required, and RMTrak provides an extensive tutorial and context-sensitive online help
files.
Work In Microsoft Word - RMTrak lets you use the familiar and powerful Microsoft Word
application to format and edit your documents. You can begin by using existing Microsoft
Word documents or by creating new ones.
Document-centric Approach - RMTrak's document-centric approach significantly reduces,
and in most cases eliminates, the time many other tools require for typing requirements
into the application's database. RMTrak allows you to use your existing documents from
various formats supported by Microsoft Word.
Requirements Imports - RMTrak allows you to import data from other requirements
management tools.
Server or Workstation - RMTrak can be easily installed on a server for use by multiple
individuals or on a stand-alone workstation. With RMTrak, documents don't need to be
kept in a central location; however, if more than one person will be viewing the
documents, it is recommended that you organize them somewhere on a server that
everyone can access.
Low-Cost Implementation - RMTrak's individual seat license is inexpensive, and limited
support is free. Additionally, since RMTrak is so easy to use, there's no need for
expensive training, which can take up your valuable team members' time as they
struggle to learn a difficult tool.
Data Capturing - RMTrak lets you establish a simple requirements management process
to capture, organize, and manage entire projects—from concept development to final
production.
Attributes Assignment - RMTrak lets you organize and trace requirement details to
ensure the proper resources are committed to the project during the requirements
development phase. You can establish information relationships between multiple
documents, assign attributes to the information, such as task assignment, priority and
status, and change these over time to reflect changes in your project. You can link highlevel business requirements to more detailed design requirements.
Change Management (Traceability)- RMTrak lets you stay in control of schedules,
resources, and deliverables. RMTrak can manage the impact that changes have on your
project objectives, and RMTrak can enable team members to understand their
responsibilities and the impact of changing requirements on their project. RMTrak lets
you trace changes to see how each requirement's changes affect multiple other
requirements. This is the key to successful project management.
Flexible Reporting - RMTrak keeps track of your requirements and avoids unnecessary
and costly revisions. RMTrak lets you rapidly locate specific information using keyword
searches. You can use any of the default reports, including Orphan, Childless,
Unallocated, Suspect, Closure and Requirements Summary, and Change reports, or have
RBC Product You can use hyperlinks to navigate between your reports and requirements
documents.
Tag Filter - Thanks to RMTrak's tag filter, it's easy to list requirements of different
projects within the same document, and yet not have them be confused in reports and
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views. RMTrak's tag filter allows each project to only recognize document tags that were
intended for it, ignoring any tags intended for another project. This lets you use a
requirements management document for more than one project without hassle or
confusion.
SQL Database Queries - RMTrak lets you generate views using SQL queries, in addition
to its other views, so you can easily retrieve and view any desired information from the
project's database.
Easy Database Recreation - RMTrak's document-centric approach makes rebuilding
databases simple. In the unlikely event that a database becomes missing or corrupt, you
need only to create a new project in RMTrak then re-import the project's documents.
Flexibility - You can create any type of document, with any format, any structure, and
any purpose, and RMTrak can still track the requirements listed in the document. To
RMTrak, it doesn't matter if the requirements are presented in tables, bulleted lists, or
just mentioned somewhere in a paragraph.
Customization - RMTrak is completely customizable. Unlike many other collaborative
requirements management tools, RMTrak lets you configure how you tag and format
your documents, how it recognizes tags, how it retrieves the document's number and
revision, and more.
Tool Name: RMI (Requirements Management Interface) Version 1.0.4
Company Name: MathWorks
Company URL: http://www.mathworks.com/
Product URL:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk_r13/help/toolbox/reqmgt/reqmgt.html
MathWorks's Requirements Management Interface allows users to coordinate, track, and
implement changes in the design specifications throughout the development cycle. Users can
access requirements stored in formal requirements management systems, such as DOORS, or in
Microsoft Word, Excel, or HTML-formatted documents, and implement the requirements in
MATLAB. RMI provides a graphical user interface called the Navigator that displays a treestructured directory of all the blocks and subsystems in the users current model. Users use the
Navigator to access requirements and their corresponding implementations. The latest version
now works with the latest DOORS release, DOORS 5.2, as well as all earlier DOORS versions.
Tool Name: Scenario Plus version 2.1.1
Contact detail URL: http://www.scenarioplus.org.uk/
Scenario Plus generates and models goals, captures, verifies, animates and plays back scenarios.
Designed for use by stakeholders who want to describe their requirements to software
developers. Scenario Plus is comprised of a set of add-on tools to enable DOORS to be used for
scenario-based requirements elicitation and analysis. Scenario plus is also capable of generating
test scripts.
The Templates for Documents & Spreadsheets define simple document patterns in different
formats (including Word and Excel) to support mission, stakeholder and non-functional
requirement analysis on projects.
The Use Case toolkit for DOORS provides a complete set of add-on tools for scenario- based
requirements elicitation and analysis with UML Use Cases.
The Diagrams toolkit for DOORS provides editors for a range of systems engineering diagrams.
All the diagrams permit full traceability to requirements.
The Extensions toolkit for DOORS provides tools to build project support structures such as
Templates, Project Dictionaries, and annotatable World Maps.
Tool Name: SHORE version 2.0
Company Name: SD&M (Software Design and Management) AG
Product URL: http://www.openshore.org/
SHORE (Semantic Hypertext Object REpository) is a hypertext repository that provides a
consistent view of content from a diverse set of tools, like other repositories, text documents,
program source code etc. Requirements documents (or the content of repositories) are converted
to XHTML and enhanced with specific markup, which denotes the relationship between objects
defined by the various documents. The converted requirements documents can then be accessed
in a variety of ways, including using browsers, using queries on the content of SHORE's object
structure by creating report documents from SHORE or simply by dumping the content into text
files for further processing. The documents, objects, and relationships are specified using
SHORE's own simple meta model specification language which can be used to answer questions
like which requirements have been derived from a specific use case? Which test cases check a
specific requirement? Which use cases and requirements would be affected if a specific class
were changed?
SHORE is developed as an open source project and was initially made available by sd&m under
the Common Public License. Applications of SHORE are source code repositories for software
development or reengineering projects or in general tools for knowledge management.
Tool Name: Simunicator
Company Name: Simunication Inc.
Contact detail URL: http://www.simunication.com/
Simunicator is a tool for rapidly building high fidelity prototypes and simulations to identify needs
and requirements. It is an affordable, powerful, and easy-to-use requirements definition tool. It
has functionality for capturing feedback and ensuring creation of simulations in a collaborative
way. It is very flexible so can be used with any process including Waterfall, Agile, RUP, etc. and
will add value to the process to ensure that projects begin with correct and validated
requirements. Simunicator incorporates the following features:
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Web Based — Simunicator is completely web based, requiring only a browser to build or
view simulations. Customers need not install any special software to view the
simulations. Deployment and maintenance is much easier.
Use Case Driven — Users can begin by defining use cases (or scenarios) then adding
behavior and user interfaces. Use case actions can be connected to buttons and links to
create functional simulations.
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WYSIWYG User Interface — Simunicator user interfaces are configured using an inbrowser HTML WYSIWYG editor. Users can work in HTML or use the editor to help. Users
can plug in their own current widgets, HTML, Java Script and style sheets (CSS).
Apache's Velocity syntax is supported in the web pages.
Templates — A selection of templates for horizontal, vertical, tree, tabbed and dynamic
template navigations is provided. Users can create reusable templates so whenever a
new project is started they can view what the simulation will look like using different
templates.
Database Access — A simulation database is provided for quick creation of tables that
can be plugged into the simulations. Having data appear in the reports and forms makes
a powerful presentation for users who are trying to test drive the simulation.
Logic and Rules — Business logic and rules can be added using scripting so users are not
limited to the buttons and clicks in a typical tool GUI. The Beanshell scripting language
used is very similar to conventional scripting syntax.
Simple but Powerful — Users can create simulations in minutes to start the
communication flowing, then if required build very powerful simulations which access
databases, validate users, build PDFs and much more.
Tool Name: Software through Pictures (StP) Version 8.3.1
Company Name: Aonix
Contact detail URL: http://www.aonix.com/
Product URL: http://www.aonix.com/stp.html
StP consists of several tools that link all phases of the project lifecycle including requirements
specifications, analysis and design through to application deployment and maintenance. Amongst
the family of tools is the Validator/Req tool which models requirements in UML notation.
Validator/Req supports automated syntax and semantic checking to make sure the rules of the
modeling language are not violated. Validator/Req also checks the entered requirements
information for logical and operational correctness. Also included is the StP/UML tool which is a
graphical UML based OO modeling environment which automates requirements discovery,
analysis, design, and implementation of object-oriented applications. It includes nine graphical
editors one of which is the Use-Case editor which allows the user to perform high-level analysis
with usage models to identify requirements. Additional features include the ability to generate
test cases, testability reports, and requirements-to-test-case traceability matrices. The latest
version includes the following new functionality:
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Complete UML version 1.3 support
Scalable to dozens or even hundreds of simultaneous users without the need to partition
models
Unique additional support for Safety Critical models and real-time, allowing developers to
use StP at the highest levels of criticality as well as for conventional projects
Support for Structured Analysis and reverse engineering
Tool Name: Telelogic DOORS
Company Name: Telelogic
Contact detail URL: http://www.telelogic.com/products/doors/index.cfm
Telelogic DOORS®, the market- and technology-leading family of solutions for requirements
definition and requirements management, improves quality by optimizing communication and
collaboration, and by promoting compliance and verification through the following capabilities:
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Intuitive interfaces that encourage all stakeholders, including business users, to actively
participate in the requirements process
Scalability for any project, regardless of size or number of users
A flexible, up-to-date, easy-to-use requirements traceability matrix
The most comprehensive support for recording, structuring, managing, and analyzing
requirements and their traceability
Unparalleled integration with Telelogic's other solutions and third-party tools to increase
requirements visibility and to drive their traceability throughout the development lifecycle
Tool Name: Statestep
Company Name: Statestep
Contact detail URL: http://statestep.com
Statestep is designed to ensure that no unusual scenarios are overlooked in the requirements
phase.
A unique user interface makes it possible to systematically consider vast numbers of
combinations of circumstances. In its most powerful mode of use, Statestep supports modeling
system behaviour as a finite state machine - in a simple form that is immediately understood by
all reviewers and allows for easy annotation with informal comments or notes.
Whether used in a specialized or a more general way, Statestep provides continuous interactive
feedback on the consistency and completeness of the specification being edited.
Template-based code generation is also available.
Tool Name: TcSE (Teamcenter Systems Engineering) Version 7.0
Company Name: UGS
Contact detail URL: http://www.ugs.com/products/teamcenter/sol_prod/requirements
TCSE is a requirements management tool that includes both Requirements Management and
System Architect licenses. The Systems Architect solution gives the people responsible for
planning the integrated mechanical, electrical and software product design a powerful tool to
create and communicate requirements. The Requirements Management solution delivers product
requirements to all of the entitled users who participate in your product lifecycle. Teamcenter
brings your customers directly into your extended enterprise and reflects their concerns from the
start of your product lifecycle to its conclusion. Version 7 of TcSE includes the following new
features:
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An intuitive user interface that looks and acts a lot like Windows Explorer and Outlook.
Microsoft Office integrations allow users to interact with requirements information
directly from their desktop
Document importing and exporting for requirements capture and generation.
Multi-user group environment that enables users to view and work on requirement
concurrently in a controlled way.
Linking and tracing mechanisms like a summary requirement to a specific paragraph in
the source document from which is was extracted
Versioning/variant feature that supports a complete requirements-based configuration
management capability
Activators enable development teams to capture, automate and enforce processes.
Security protections allow administrators to control user access, information access, and
modification privileges.
Tool Name: Truereq PLM Software version 1.1
Company Name: Truereq Inc.
URL: http://www.truereq.com/
Truereq is an ASP-based requirements management tool for collaborative Product Lifecycle
Management. Using Truereq, you can manage your product development process in a centralized
workspace shared by all your team members. Truereq's integrated toolkit helps you focus on
making better products, more quickly, efficiently, and at a dramatically reduced cost.
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Affordable ASP & Enterprise Solutions
Integrates with Existing Processes, Methodologies and Tools
Collaboration, Workflow and Data Aggregation
The TRUEreq environment provides a centralized repository for information and a forum for
communication. It is an easy to use set of tools and a bi-directional XML platform that integrates
with existing solutions. TRUEreq allows for insight into and control of the product development
process to help make better, quicker decisions yielding successful products.
Tool Name: VeroTrace
Company Name: Verocel
Contact detail URL: http://www.verocel.com/verotrace.htm
VeroTrace is a requirements traceability management tool for managing system requirements,
software requirements, high and low-level requirements. It can also associate various artefacts
such as source code, design components, test procedures, functional test results, coverage
results, and all review filenames that support all requirements.
VeroTrace is also a life cycle traceability management tool that allows you to produce, manage,
and deliver all the data that supports software certification/approval. VeroTrace combines
requirements; CM configured artifacts; and all reviews with auto-generated HTML traceability
information creating what is, essentially, a local website that hyperlinks all life cycle traceability
data. In fact, VeroTrace first generates the traceability information entirely as XML files. Its
traceability generation procedures then convert all the XML traceability files to HTML files using
XSL stylesheets so the traceability can be viewed with any browser.
Tool Name: Visual Information Portal (VIP) Version
Company Name: Future Tech Systems, Inc.
Contact detail URL: http://www.future-tech.com/
Product URL: http://www.future-tech.com/prod01.htm
Envision VIP provides a fully extensible database for housing each piece of a document. This
includes phrases or words that a user uses in a document. Envision automatically keeps track of
all key terms (e.g. requirements and system elements) and all references to them. Envision VIP
provides a completely customizable reporting facility that provides unlimited ways of viewing and
building information such as indexes or glossaries. In addition, it provides a custom query facility
that produces Excel type spreadsheet reports, a data repository browser facility, and a repository
toolbox. Now you can synergistically model your enterprise with the ENVISION Visual Information
Portal (VIP). Accurately modeling these complex domains is crucial to shaping a viable reengineering agenda.
Intuitive models allow you to quickly capture your "current state" metrics as a baseline against
which future changes can be evaluated. These "live" dynamic visual models support on-going
strategic planning and control within the organization. They can also be used to provide
multimedia training, executive information systems, project planning, development, and beyond.
ENVISION from Future Tech Systems is widely used by business consultants and analysts in
major organizations for:
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Documentation of processes, services, systems and organizations
Enterprise resource planning and control
Documentation management and control
Process improvement
Graphical executive information systems
Systems analysis and design
Data modeling
Network modeling
Model based training
Tool Name: XTie-RT (Cross Tie Requirements Tracer) Version 3.1.02
Company Name: Teledyne Brown Engineering
Contact detail URL : http://www.tbe.com/
Product URL : http://www.tbe.com/products/software/xtie/
XTie-RT is a client-server based application that manages requirements. Amongst other things
like functional analysis, risk analysis, and testing it provides automatic parsing of requirements
using the user-defined keywords that meet the keyword specification. XTie-RT is built on a
proprietary database which supports a point and click query mechanism. Up to 128 simultaneous
users operating on multiple projects are allowed. It can be configured to support a functional or
OO project based methodology. Traceability functions include support for normal parent/child
links to manage requirements and support for peer links between items in the database and
general documents to provide an audit trail showing compliance to quality standards or
contractual conditions.
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