An Integrated Tool For Requirement And Testing Management

In the field of software engineering, the requirement management tools and the testing management tools have been used extensively. The two kinds of tools currently are independent each other. They provide the functions supporting the requirement process and system testing process respectively. The emergence of "V" model has changed the traditional software flow. The requirement analysis and system testing aren't independent tasks and do not perform orderly, they are cooperated and associated tasks and performed parallelly. In a word, requirement analysis process and system testing process are reciprocity and associated, the staff for requirement process and for testing process should cooperate in an integrated environment.The current requirement management tools, such as RequisitePro and DOORS and Caliber-RM, emphasize particularly on the supporting requirement process. And the testing management tools, such as RAID & Test Studio and Test Director and Test Expert, on the supporting test process. The two kinds of tools are lack of considering about requirement and test parallel performance, so the staff for the requirement and for testing can't cooperate effectively in the integrated environment. In addition, since these tools commonly use the fixed status to describe the lifecycle of the product, there is lack of customized mechanism which can be adapt to different management models in different software organizes flexibly.According to the analysis above, based on the model of test proactive and the mechanism of customized status, we researched and realized an integrated tool for the requirement and testing management, called C-RTM. In this paper, we detailed describe the working mechanism of C-RTM, emphasis on analyzing the people, product and process management supported by the C-RTM. Since C-RTM supports the integrated environment, the problem, which is about the current tools can't deal with the parallel work, is fixed. The staff for the requirement and the others for the testing can cooperate effectively on the flat provided by the C-RTM. At the same time, the C-RTM also offers status custom mechanism to satisfy the needs of different organizations. This article puts forward the C-RTM's detailed design, explains the architecture and data model of the C-RTM. Finally, we introduce the realization of the C-RTM, including the scheme of realization and two important technologies.