Technical Overview (Requirement Tracing System)

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These modules are as follows:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Requirement creation and specification, known as the Functional Specification,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Requirements fulfillment, covering the design and coding of the individual requirements, known as the Program Design Specification,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The system acceptance testing of the requirements , known as the Test Specification, and</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The requirement-tracing database providing the analysis of the requirements defined for a system.</div> <div> The RTS sub-modules are based on a combination of Excel<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT>, Word<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT>, and Access<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT>.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0c311d50.jpg" border=0 width="273" height="213" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> <a href="javascript:displayWindow('id46.htm',500,640)">Zoom</a>  </FONT></div> <div> <B>RTS System Components</B></div> <div> The relationships between various modules are illustrated below:</div> <div> <IMG SRC="2fedf640.jpg" border=0 width="223" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> <a href="javascript:displayWindow('id66.htm',340,685)">Zoom</a>  </FONT></div> <div> <I><B>Functional Specification Module</B></I></div> <div> This module provides a methodology and toolset to suit the development of system requirements, which can easily adapt to your existing methodologies. The methodology allows for each specific requirement to be identified and tracked for change and completion. Within the Functional Specification module, the following is a summary of the tool available:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Inserting a requirement trace point into the document,</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Insert a New Functional Category. Note, each set of requirements is collated into functional categories.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Make/Start and End a requirement list. Requirements can be traced to a sub-list level (i.e. requirement SEC2.1/4a and SEC2.1/4b). See below for a sample requirement list:</div> <div> <IMG SRC="43611a50.jpg" border=0 width="529" height="165" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Insert a Note Marker, designated by the `<FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Wingdings" >&</FONT>' symbol indicates that this is a configuration or implementation note offering guidance to the document's audience</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Requirement Configuration, allows setting the parameters of the requirement identification, see Dialog below for an example:</div> <div> <IMG SRC="070f8890.jpg" border=0 width="504" height="137" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> The labeling convention is flexible to suit the individual project's requirements. An example of a labeling convention can be based on specification section numbers, as illustrated above, or on specification numbers, such as R2045187</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Requirement tracing builder prepares the import/export files for other modules of the RTS.</div> <div> This sub-module is based on Word<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT> and Excel<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT>.</div> <div> <I><B>Program Design Specification Module</B></I></div> <div> Similar functionality as the functional specification but is oriented towards system design specification. Requirements are tracked against code/design components and mapped back into the functional requirement via the tracing sub-module.</div> <div> Again, the toolset can be configured to suit your particular methodology and work practices.</div> <div> <I><B>Test Specification Module</B></I><B> </B></div> <div> Similar to the functional specification, but is oriented towards system testing. Requirements are tracked against test cases and mapped back into the functional requirement.</div> <div> <B>Tracing Database</B></div> <div> The requirements tracing database supports the 3 views of the requirement data matching the 3 sub-modules identified above. Examples of these views are illustrated below:</div> <div> <IMG SRC="3b7fab40.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> <a href="javascript:displayWindow('id67.htm',510,690)">Zoom</a>  </FONT></div> <div> <B>Requirements View</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="3b8fab90.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="185" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> <a href="javascript:displayWindow('id68.htm',510,690)">Zoom</a>  </FONT></div> <div> <B>Code Module View</B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="3b9fab70.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="183" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> <a href="javascript:displayWindow('id69.htm',510,690)">Zoom</a>  </FONT></div> <div> <B>Test Specification View</B></div> <div> In addition to the views above, various reports are available highlighting:</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Wing0a73007100c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Requirement mismatches, where a requirement may not be mapped to a design module or test case. Therefore, some required functionality might not be coded or tested.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Impact analysis, where isolating the requirements that require modification can identify the affected code modules and test cases.</div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700c800000000.png" HEIGHT="13" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Completion status, where as code modules and test cases are completed, the proportioned requirements are identified as coded and tested respectively.</div> <div> The tracing sub-module supports data exporting and importing to facilitate upgrades to the RTS system.</div> <div> <IMG SRC="3bafab40.jpg" border=0 width="250" height="180" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">  </SCRIPT> <a href="javascript:displayWindow('id70.htm',500,690)">Zoom</a>  </FONT></div> <div> The tracing facility also supports any user generates reports and queries on the requirement data supported via the standard Access<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT> report and query generator.</div> <div> This module is primarily based on Access<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT> with data import/export function supported by Excel<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >®</FONT>.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="35f26050.gif" border=0 width="550" height="5" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> You may download the full set of the Change Management & Requirements Tracing system documents directly from this link  <A HREF="http://www.bandwood.com/Downloads/CMSTechReport.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.bandwood.com/Downloads/CMSTec"><U>CMSTechReport.zip</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> Adobe Acrobat (PDF) files require Adobe Acrobat Reader. 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