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Requirements Management

Requirements Management provides full lifecycle support for modules, requirements, templates, reviews, quality checks, and traceability coverage.

Core outcome

The module is most effective when requirements are continuously linked to system elements and verified through quality and coverage analysis.

What You Can Do

  • Manage requirement modules and requirement records.
  • Maintain requirement templates.
  • Run review workflows with comments and closure.
  • Link requirements to system elements.
  • Create and remove trace links between requirements.
  • Execute quality checks per requirement or in bulk.
  • Run quality review jobs and export quality reports.
  • Perform imports and exports (including Word export).
  • Analyze coverage, gaps, and related link views.

Typical Workflow

  1. Create a requirement module.
  2. Import an initial requirement set or author requirements manually.
  3. Link requirements to relevant system elements.
  4. Add trace links for upstream/downstream relationships.
  5. Run bulk quality checks.
  6. Resolve quality issues and rerun reports.
  7. Create reviews and close comment threads.
  8. Export final sets for baseline and assurance workflows.

Requirements Lifecycle Diagram

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    A[Create Module] --> B[Import or Author Requirements]
    B --> C[Link System Elements]
    C --> D[Create Trace Links]
    D --> E[Run Bulk Quality Check]
    E --> F[Review and Resolve Findings]
    F --> G[Run Coverage Analysis]
    G --> H[Export for Baseline and Assurance]

Key Analysis Views

  • SBS coverage analysis.
  • Quality analysis.
  • Unmatched and gap details.
  • Module coverage views: outgoing, incoming, uncovered, related.
Collapsed risk note

If imports are run before module structure and naming are stable, downstream traceability cleanup becomes expensive. Prefer smaller import batches and review gaps after each pass.

Practical Tips

  • Prefer incremental imports with validation checkpoints.
  • Use quick update for minor edits and full update for structural fields.
  • Re-run quality and coverage analysis after major traceability updates.