Capability of Present-Day Requirements Management Tools
Present-Day Requirements Management Tools
Present-day requirements management tools (e.g., SLATE, DOORS)
claim to be process independent. But!!!
They provide the best support for top-down development where
the focus is on requirements representation, requirements traceability,
and allocation of requirements to system abstraction blocks.
Computational support for the bottom-up synthesis of systems from components is poor.
This problem is more difficult.
Figure 1. Requirements Engineering WBS and Industry Toolset Weakensses.
(For details, see Ramesh and Jarke, 2001)
A minimal implementation would check groups of
requirements for logical consistency and compatibility.