Experience with Designing a Requirements and Architecture Management Tool

  • Authors:
  • Jun Han

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SMT '00 Proceedings of the International Conference on software Methods and Tools (SMT'00)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Effective tool support is much needed for the tedious and error-prone task of managing system requirements andsystem architectures. With the primary objective of providing practical support for software engineers, we have developed a tool for managing system requirements, system architectures and their traceability, which is being used in real-world industrial projects. The tool is based on a well considered information model of system requirements andarchitectures, and embodies a set of document templates providing guidance for software engineers. In this paper, we report on our experience in designing and improving thetool. In particular, we highlight a number of case studies that played a significant role in formulating the information model and document templates, and provide an assessmentof the tool relative to existing practice.