Requirements Manager

The purpose of Requirements Manager is to ensure the organisation meets the expectations of its customers and internal or external stakeholders, ensuring that the requirements are objective, unambiguous and most of all, can be tested, as they are critical components of any successful project. 

Validata SAS provides the infrastructure for collecting, storing and displaying data for the main activities of any successful project – setting and managing requirements. Once you have a clear set of requirements it is then imperative that any IT development beyond this stage is fully aligned to each and every requirement by directly associating development tasks to the requirements. In addition you need to make sure that all requirements are met in the final product by covering them with Test Cases. Should any amendments be made to the requirements they can be traced throughout the lifecycle.

Some key aspects of the Requirements Manager are:

• It ensures that business and IT requirements are properly captured and used in development and testing projects. They are created, amended and managed within the solutions’ Requirements Tree.
• The Requirements Tree is a graphical representation of the requirements specification, displaying their hierarchy. It groups requirements into Use Cases and Use Cases in Features, monitors tasks allocation and the progress in meeting requirements, which enables users generate detailed reports and graphs.
• After creating test cases in the test plan module, you can link them to requirements (or multiple requirements) via an easy to use interface. During the testing stage, you are also able to link requirements to defects – enabling risk-based decisions to be made.
• Linking requirements to test assets as described above, you can also track testing across all stages of the testing process. If testing requirements change, the system will immediately identify affected tests and defects and the person responsible for them.
• Another feature will allow you to see the history using the View History functionality. This is possible by simply right-clicking on a specific unit; the functionality will display a diagram of all operations performed on the unit in real time.
• Furthermore, the solution can automatically generate test cases when requirements are created.