Transcript Diapositiva 1 - Phaedrus Systems

Requirements Definition & Management with IRQA
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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I n d e x
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
www.visuresolutions.com
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Company
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
www.visuresolutions.com
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RDM
Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Company
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
 Visure Solutions is the “The Requirements Company” focusing on
end-to-end Requirements Definition and Management solutions
 More than 10 years experience in RDM solutions.
 Continuous innovation by significant investment in R&D
Product portfolio covers Requirements Definition and
Management tooling for Software and Systems Engineering
 Proven technology with great reference base with more than 200
customers in 18 countries, and more than 10.000 users worldwid
 Headquartes in Madrid, Spain, Office in Munich, Germany
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Company Mission
Company
“Improve quality and reduce costs of the Software
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
and Systems Engineering processes
through proven solutions for
Requirements Definition and Management”
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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RDM
Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Where are we present?
Company
5000+ users, 200+ customers, use IRQA worldwide
IRQA History
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Europe
Why IRQA ?
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - The Main Sectors
Company
IRQA Provides solutions both for Software and Systems Engineering
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Aerospace, Avionics and Defence
Electronic and Micro Electronic
Import & Export
Traceability
Automotive and Rail
R M
Why IRQA ?
Telecommunication and Network
IT, Bank, Insurance and Government
IRQA includes the best of both worlds
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RDM
Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 – Our customers (1)
Finance
Company
IRQA History
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Public administration and research centers
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Telecommunication
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 – Our customers (2)
Transport and Utilities
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Automotive, rail and electronics
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Public administration and research centers
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RDM
Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 – Our customers (3)
Services
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Medical and Pharmaceutical Sector
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Others
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Real Evaluation Scenario
Company
Real evaluation scenarios to implement a RDM tool
IRQA History
corporately in a company
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Replacement of
Competitive Systems
Implementation Support
CMMI Level 2 - 3
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Tool implementation
for 6 parallel
projects
Roll-out of
additional 7 Projects
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International
IRqA Roll-out
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Evaluation Criteria
Company
A complete evaluation guide was developed for
the tool evaluation
IRQA History
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
1 Requirements Capture / Information Interfaces
1.1 Data Import
1.2 Variants
1.3 Use of Specifications across Projects
1.4 Methods for Defining Requirements
1.5 Attributes
1.6 Reuse of Requirements and Concepts
2 Requirements Structure
3 Requirements Analysis
3.1 Metrics
3.2 Impact Analysis
3.3 Concept Comparison
3.4 Traceability Analysis
3.5 Costo and Schedule Prediction an Analysis
3.6 Risk Management
4 Requirements Traceability
5 Configuration Management
5.1 Change
5.2 Versioning
5.3 Messages
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6 Report Generation
6.1 Status Reporting
6.2 Presentations
6.3 Review
6.4 Document Generation
7 Toll Interfaces
7.1 Data Exchange with other RE Software
7.2 Data Export
7.3 Intra - Tool Data Exchange
8 Multi – User Functionality
8.1 Digital Signatures
8.2 Data Access
8.3 Internationality
9 Glossary
10 Training, Support and Maintenance
10.1 Training
10.2 Support and Maintenance
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - Functional assesment & cost
Tool22
Tool20
Tool21
Tool18
Tool19
Tool17
Tool16
Tool14
Tool15
Tool13
Tool12
Tool11
Tool9
Tool8
Tool7
Tool10
Import & Export
Tool6
IRQA User Interface
Tool5
What is IRQA ?
Tool4
R D M
Tool3
IRQA History
Tool2
Company
Tool1
Functional Assessment (%)
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
22 tools were evaluated using the defined evaluation criteria
Traceability
Adquisition Cost
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Why IRQA ?
800.000 €
700.000 €
600.000 €
20 licenses (5-15)
500.000 €
30 licenses (7-23)
400.000 €
50 licenses (10-40)
300.000 €
200.000 €
100 licenses (15-85
100.000 €
0€
Tool14
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Tool20 Tool10 Tool18 Tool19 Tool22 Tool17 Tool21
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Company
Mission
Where are we ?
Main Sectors
Customers (1)
Customers (2)
Customers (3)
Scenario
Criteria
Assesment
1 - The Solution for RDM
Company
With full Requirements Life-Cycle Support
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
Technology
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Process
Process Neutral – CMMI,
Spice, ISO, Ad-hoc
Software Enginnering
Solution
People
Training, Consultancy
Systems Engineering
The focus is not only in IRQA,
but in providing solutions directly or through
“Added Value” distributors
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RDM
History
Award
2 - IRQA History
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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History
Award
2 - IRQA Product History
Company
IRQA History
R D M
“More than10 Years Development”
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
IRQA 4, is the result of 10 years
Import & Export
development and experience implementing
Traceability
R M
Requirements Definition and Management solutions
Why IRQA ?
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IRqA1.0
IRqA 3.6
1999
2006
5
IRQA 4.1 IRQA 4.2
2008
2009
2010
2011
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History
Award
2 - IRQA4-Award Winning RE Solution
TCO, Efficiency, Control and Quality
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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Ease of use, implementation and configuration
Rich functionality, integrated support to end-to-end Requirements
Engineering
Open for other tools, processes and collaboration
Robust, standard based open architecture (repository/API)
Visual tools enabling e.g. re-use, traceability and process orientation
Metrics and Reporting
“In Butler Group’s view the solution has an impressive set of integration
capabilities, and can be adapted easily to existing RDM processes in
organisations, as well as the development methodology in use”
Best tool for “OPTIMIZING THE BUSINESS ALIGNMENT ON
THE REQUIREMENTS”
“A surprise was IRQA from Visure Solutions, from Madrid, Spain,
which offered advances in specific areas.”
January 2010
IRQA is recognized by well known analysts
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - The importance of Requirements
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - RDM
Company
Requirements Definition and Management
IRQA History
R D M
REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
REQUIREMENTS DEFINITION
REQUIREMENTS MANAGEMENT
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Requirements Capture&Gathering
Requirements Analysis
Requirements Specification
Requirements Validation
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - Why is it necessary to manage requirements? (1)
Company
IRQA History
R D M
Even though RE requires an initial effort, it is time and
money saving from the moment we encounter the
first change
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Project cost WITHOUT
Requirements Engineering
Import & Export
Traceability
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Delivery
Why IRQA ?
Project cost WITH
Requirements Engineering
Start of the
project
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Delivery
(less delay)
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - Why is it necessary to manage requirements? (2)
Company
Requirements
Change requests
Errors, Maintenance
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
Time
IRQA User Interface
Requirementscapture
Project start
(Development)
End of project
(Total project)
End of
Warranty
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Risk
The risk of the errors in the requirements phase
increase along the lifecycle
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - You have already heard about this…
Source: Dean Leffingwell & James Martin, An Information Systems Manifesto
Requirements Errors
Company
Design Errors
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
Requirements
IRQA User Interface
Other Errors (4%)
Coding Errors (1%)
The cost of fixing an error
60
200
Project Analyzed
180
0 - 5% invested in Req.
Management results in 80 – 200%
overcost
160
50
140
% Overcost
Why IRQA ?
Other
70
Relative Cost to Correct a Defect
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Code
The source of software errors
Import & Export
Traceability
Design
40
30
8 - 14% invested in Req.
Management results in 0 – 60%
overcost
120
100
80
60
20
40
10
20
0
0
Requirements
Design
Code
Development Acceptance Operation
Testing
Testing
0
5
10
15
20
25
% Requirements Management Cost compared to total project cost
Source: Barry W. Boehm, Software Engineering Economics
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Source: Ivy Hooks
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - How RE can help in downturn of Economy
Company
IRQA History
Investing in RE tooling will help to:

Improve productivity through re-use, reduced rework and better
quality

Reduce costs of engineering with re -use and reduced rework

Increase revenue with better time-to-market and competitive
products

Stay competitive by enhancing engineering processes regards
costs, responsiveness and agility

Helping to increase alignment of engineering efforts and
business needs

Improve processes agility by traceability and impact analysis
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - Why MS Excel / MS Word is not enough? (1)
Many Reasons but in particular…
Company
IRQA History
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No multiple user capability
R D M
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No attributes
What is IRQA ?
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No history
IRQA User Interface
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No modeling
Import & Export
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No possibility to do Analysis and Reporting
Traceability
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No traceability
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No process
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and so on...
R M
Why IRQA ?
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Requirements (1)
Requirements (2)
Project Failure
Economy
MS Excel/Word (1)
MS Excel/Word (2)
3 - Why MS Excel / MS Word is not enough? (2)
Company
IRQA History
Bad requirements are like a defective time bomb
R D M
What is IRQA ?
You never know when it is going to blow!
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - What is IRQA ?
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
www.visuresolutions.com
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - What is IRQA ? (1)
TENDER MANAGEME N T
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
CONTRACT ACTIVITIE S
Us er Requir ements
Sys tem Requir ements
Acceptance Tes ts
Validation Tes ts
Covered by IRQA
IRQA History
Covered by IRQA
Company
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
DESING & ENGINEE RI NG ACTIVITIE S
Why IRQA ?
Des ign
Cons tr uction
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Integr ation Tes ts
Unitar y Tes ts
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - The IRQA Integral Solution
Requirements Communication
Company
IRQA History
IRQA
eXchange
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA
eXchange
Customer
Provider
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Visual Prototyper
Prototype and
simulate sw reqs
Requirement Definition & Management (RDM)
IRQA Face. J-IRQA Face – COM & Java API
IRQA
Quality Analyzer
Semantic Analysis
Why IRQA ?
Reporting
IRQA
IRQA Integration
Platform
Existing Integrations
SCM (SCC)
(Subversion
, etc)
USER
MANAGEME
NT
(NT, LDAP)
Report
Manager
Requirements
Driven Design
Requirements
Driven Testing
Issue
Tracking
RM Tools
PPM
• Sparx EA
• IBM RSM
•IBM RSA
• HP QC
• LDRA
• MKS IM
•Bugzilla
• JIRA
• DOORS
• CaliberRM
•IBM
Focalpoint
External Elements
Plugins capability
Other Tools
• Propietary Tools
• Comm. Tools
•Extend functionality
Project Management (MS Project)
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - IRQA Products
Company
IRQA History
R D M
Requirements Definition and Management
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Access your requirements anytime, anywhere
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Design your own customized reports
Why IRQA ?
Communicate and exchange your requirements
with other RM tools
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - Additional Modules
Company
IRQA History
Prototype and simulate your software
requirements
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Visual Prototyper
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Quality Analyzer
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Analyze the quality of your requirements
descriptions and suggest improvements to
help end users write better requirements
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - What is IRQA ? (2)
Company
IRQA helps:
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
 Align Business objectives with IT increasing the visibility
of the business goals and the technical specifications
 Deliver exactly what was requested improving
collaboration and communication
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
 Increase customer satisfaction by delivering what was
agreed, complying with the user requirements and
standards and regulations
 Deliver projects on-time and on-budget taking control
of your Requirements Specification
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What is IRQA? (1)
IRQA Solutions
IRQA Products
Modules
What is IRQA? (2)
What is IRQA? (3)
4 - What is IRQA ? (3)
Company
IRQA History
IRQA is a Requirements Definition and Management tool
specifically designed for,
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability

Requirements capture and gathering
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Requirements analysis
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Requirements traceability

Requirements validation

Requirements specification

Change management
R M
Why IRQA ?
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - IRQA User Interface
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - User views (1)
Hierarchical representation of requirements
Company
IRQA History
Requirements are easily organised in an intuitive and easy to use
windows standard view
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
RTF Descriptions
Any information provided
by the customer
can be included in this
field, including
tables, images and
OLE objects
R M
Why IRQA ?
Unlimited User-defined attributes
Attributes add information to requirements e.g. Priority, and can also represent
the requirement’s lifecycle in a convenient workflow
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - Aligning Processes and Tools
Workflows
Company
IRQA History
R D M
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Users can easily follow a well defined process through user-defined
workflows in IRQA
Different lifecycles
Workflows can be defined for
Change requests, User requirements,
Tests and other elements
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Approval process
It is possible to define who can perform each transition and establish
an approval process
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - User views (2)
Company
IRQA History
R D M
Document-like view
With just one click, users can switch to different views and organise elements in
the most convenient way according to the activity performed
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
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“Block” grouping
Blocks can represent a template
structure
to help users simply type in
requirements into the
corresponding category
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - User views (3)
Document-like view
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Non-technical users will also be able to enter requirements and requests in a very
easy way, including marketing and other departments
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IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Navigation panel
A quick and easy way
to navigate through
the elements
Why IRQA ?
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - User views (4)
Attribute view
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With the information in the database, knowing the
Status of the project is at one click
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Status attribute
classification
Priority attribute
classification
Requirements
classification by Status
and Priority
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User Views (1)
Processes
User Views (2)
User Views (3)
User Views (4)
User Views (5)
5 - User views (5)
Saving, restoring and sharing user views
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Administrators can create specific views for the rest of the users groups
like testers and analysts, saving time and enhancing the
communication , displaying the correct requirements and information in
each moment of the project to the corresponding users
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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User views list
Each user will have a list of
user-defined views as well
as shared views from the
Administrators
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Importing (1)
Exporting (2)
Measuring
6 - Import & Export
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Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Importing (1)
Exporting (2)
Measuring
6 - Importing from MS Excel/Word
Automatic Import
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Automatically impor t huge
amounts of infor mation
Compare
Find Changed , New and
Unchanged elements , and
find out the difer ences
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
MS Word/Excel
Impor t your exis ting
r equir ements cus tomer
documents or even your
offline wor k
Import into IRQA
Accept or r eject the elements to impor t
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Importing (1)
Exporting (2)
Measuring
6 - Exporting to MS Excel/Word
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Export to MS Word and MS Excel buttons
Quick and easy export to Office buttons , directly from the IRQA
interface, available for all the users
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Importing (1)
Exporting (2)
Measuring
6 - Measuring and Reporting
Advanced Reports
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Directly from the IRQA interface, user defined reports can be generated
into multiple formats, including HTML, PDF, RTF or XML, to represent metrics,
projects status, Test coverage, and many other reports
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Predefined Reports
What is IRQA ?
IRQA provides a complete list of out-of-the-box reports
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Corporate Reports
New reports can be designed
with the Report Manager,
and included in the users
list of available reports
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - End to end Traceability
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - Traceability
Traceability between Customer Requests and User Requirements is EASY!
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Just by right clicking, the user will be able to start and set the relationship
Multiple window capability
Powerful Filtering
Users can display several views containing
requirements, use cases or tests
Filters can be applied to show only customer
requests or high priority user requirements
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IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - Change impact at a glance
Navigating through the relationships
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Navigating and communicating changes is one the most important activities in RDM
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Customer
Requests
Affected User
Requirements
Related requirements
Represented in a
Powerful and intuitive
way to assess the
change
Other related elements
Use Cases and Test Cases
can be represented in
columns for an overall idea of
the Impact of a change
Plugins
Can be used to represent
any other information
e.g. Results of related
tests executions
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - Traceability at a glance
Visual representation of the structure and traceability
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The user-defined block diagrams represent the process so it can be understood by
everybody, including management and marketing, and allow establishing a
collaborative environment for all the users, so they can easily understand, follow and
participate in the defined process
What is IRQA ?
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Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Navigate to relationships
Navigate to elements
Activating the blocks will
take the user to the
elements of that type
Activating the relationships
will take the user to
a traceability matrix
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - Requirements Specification
Use Case support
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What is IRQA ?
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Import & Export
Traceability
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Use Cases provide a simple and powerful way to communicate with, and gather
requirements from, stakeholders. It also helps clarify requirements and create a common
understanding between all development team members and stakeholders, fostering
communication and collaboration across all stakeholders
Use Case Diagram
Quick and easy modeling
Completeness
Simply organise requirements
By Use Cases to find it all
Requirements are being fulfilled
Specific support
Use cases support flows,
as well as other specific
information
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - Requirements Validation (1)
Acceptance Tests support
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Requirements should be validated through test cases, which are specifically supported in
IRQA. One requirement can be traced to one or more tests, as well as a test can be traced
to one or more requirements
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Specific support
What is IRQA ?
Tests cases support scenarios,
as well as specific information
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Validation Matrix
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Easy management
We can easily find what
requirements are hot covered
Test case support
is very similar to
requirements
Requirements Coverage Matrix
Represents the test coverage
of requirements (reqs vs. Tests)
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - Requirements Validation (2)
Test execution support
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Test case definitions can be associated to requirements and use cases, and these can be
executed in different test cycles. These executions can be represented in IRQA as well as
the traceability with test definition, status and the different cycles.
Plugins
Plugins can be used to
generate test executions
automatically
Specific attributes
Tests executions can inherit a
status, cycle and other attributes
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Test definition and execution traceability
Each test definition has several associated test
executions, which can be represented in the test
cases view
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Test Cycle
The test cycle can be
represented in several ways
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Traceability
Impact
Traceability
Specification
Validation (1)
Validation (2)
End to end
7 - End-to-end Traceability
Indirect relationships
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Block diagrams can display the impact between any pair of elements in our specification,
even if they are only related through intermediate elements
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What is IRQA ?
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Indirect Traceability
Matrix
Import & Export
Customer requests
vs. Acceptance Tests
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Indirect relationships
There are not direct relationships
between customer requests
and acceptance tests, but
there is a path between them
through requirements
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - Requirements Management
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - Prioritization
Requirements Prioritization- Take the right decision for your business!
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What is IRQA ?
Prioritization helps base decisions on objective information, concentrate the effort in the
most efficient way, assign appropriate influence in your roadmap to each source and
simulate and calculate different scenarios depending on the different points of view
IRQA Requirements Prioritization Plugin
Download for free from our website!
IRQA User Interface
Sorted list of importance
Sorted list of elements (from
most to least important),
according to the weights
given and their values
Import & Export
Traceability
Weights and colors
Give each attribute a color
and a weight, and also to
each of its value
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Why IRQA ?
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Element information
Prioritize based on any
information, including Priority,
Cost, Estimation, Risk, Origin,
etc.
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - Configuration Management (1)
Baseline management and individual versions management
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Elements can be tracked at individual level or at project level through versions and
baselines, achieving a total control of the history of the project through detailed
comparisons
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Baseline Comparison
Complete follow-up of
elements in baselines
What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Description Comparison
Import & Export
Highlight changes
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Baseline visualization
Directly from the User
interface,
users can visualize previous
baselines
Individual Element comparison
Compare two versions of
the same element
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - Configuration Management (2)
Baseline electronic signature
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Administrators can make sure and generate evidence of the conformity (or not) to a specific set of
elements in a baseline.
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Baseline visualization
Once inside the project, the user can
visualize the baseline pending signature
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Signature
Pending signatures
The project list highlights those
projects with pending signatures
from the current user.
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The user selects the
meaning of the signature
and includes a comment
along with the
confirmation of the
signature
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - Re-usability
Save time and improve quality through the re-use of components
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What is IRQA ?
Requirements, Use Cases, Tests and the relationships between them can be “packaged” in
components which can then be re-used through the whole company
Component Version
Select the specific version to be shared
Projects
Select the projects in wich the
component will be published
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Import & Export
Re-used elements
Elements are imported
and marked in the
destination
Traceability
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Why IRQA ?
Select the component
from the catalogue
Non functional requirements
(security, performance,
usability, etc.),
functionality and all the
associated tests or use cases
can be included in the
catalogue
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Import and update
Import into the destination
project in:
- Share (read only with
updates)
- Copy & link (read/write
with updates)
- Copy
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - Integrations
Traceability between artifacts of different tools
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Block diagrams can contain external elements from third party tools to benefit from the powerful traceability features in IRQA
IRQA History
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
R M
Why IRQA ?
Synchronization
Synchronization
Third party tool
Export Reqs, servs, tests and
traceability to IRQA
Third party tools
Import Reqs, servs, tests and
traceability from IRQA
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Prioritization
C M (1)
C M (2)
Re-usability
Integrations
Architecture
8 - IRQA / IRQA Web Architecture
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L ocal Client
Floating Client
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What is IRQA ?
IRQA User Interface
Import & Export
Traceability
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TCP/IP
TCP/IP
Why IRQA ?
IRQA Web
L ICENSE SERVER
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IRQA REPOSITOR Y
( ORACL E, SQL Ser ver ,
MS Acces s )
IRQA L ICENSE
SERVER
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IRQA
9 - Why IRQA ?
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IRQA is a Requirements Definition and Management tool
supporting the complete Requirements Engineering process,
in an easy way, enhancing and empowering collaboration
and communication, providing:
What is IRQA ?

User views according to the role and the activity
IRQA User Interface

Powerful import and export features
Import & Export

Metrics and control dashboards and traceability reports
Traceability

End-to-end traceability
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Complete configuration management

Specific Use Case and Test Case support

Re-usability

Integrations

…and many more!
Why IRQA ?
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The Requirements Company
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Why IRQA ?
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