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Are you a Quality Assurance Engineer? A Test Engineer? A Project Manager or Team Leader? IT-Lead or CIO? 

You don't want to waste time and money with a complex tool? 

Reqchecker is a simple and efficient tool that manages the requirements written under any format, including Microsoft Office:

  • Use your existing specification and test plan with Word or Excel
  • Ensure your requirements are completely covered by test cases
  • Ensure propagation of all requirement changes trough  specifications and test plans 
  • Requirement Management is a best practice for software development. It ensures that your software meets all the required needs.
The requirement management is mandatory for CMMI level 2 and higher, and for Certification in Aeronautics (DO-178B, DO-254).
REQCHECKER checks that the requirements are well defined and covered in several documents. These sources can be MS Office WORD, EXCEL, POWERPOINT, PDF, DOORS, and can be easily extended to any data source.   
The main usage of REQCHECKER for software development is:
  • REQCHECKER ensures that the specifications cover the needs,
  • REQCHECKER ensures that the tests cover the specification.

The tool is free and really user friendly : you can directly use it with Microsoft Windows Explorer. All information are stored into a single runnable file : the coverage file (*.cover). The tool runs standalone, you can install it without administration right.


The multi-format reader part of Reqchecker source code is available there.


 FEATURES...

Engine
            • parses the requirements in several documents
            • checks that all requirements are covered at least once
            • manages partial coverage
            • manages orphans
            • manages deleted coverage
            • manages change using version tags  (new)
            • ignores part of documents (filter by position)



Data sources 
            • Text (.txt) 
            • Microsoft WORD (.doc)
            • Microsoft EXCEL  (.xls)
            • API for extension to other format





Report
            • PDF full report 
            • CSV report with status, statement, coverage list 







GUI    
            • Windows explorer integration
            • GUI editor : files, syntax, filters, reports 
            • Progress bar








OS
            • Runs on Windows platforms
            • Runs on command line




 DOWNLOAD...

DOWNLOAD Change Log
DOWNLOAD User Manual




EASY...

For example the first document is the specification that contains one statement :
<REQ_0123> About box
The software has an about box. 

The second document is the test book that contains one coverage :
Open the About menu, a dialog box is displayed with the file name, the copyright and the version. <<REQ_0123>>

Group all files in the same folder, right-clic on each file and select "ADD".

The coverage file is automatically created and initialized.


The syntax can be customized.



Double-click on the coverage file to launch the analysis.



Open the new report file that looks like this :




ROADMAP...

TYPE   FEATURE

Engine Automatically create requirements from chapter titles (modify doc)
Engine Minimal number of coverage for a partial cover of a requirement
Report Link with source text (double click open the source file)
Report Export under RIF format (Requirements Interchange Format)
Engine User defined attributes for requirement
Engine Impact analysis (links in the chain of several coverages)
Reader Open-Office Writer Reader (.odt)
Reader Adobe Portable Reader (.pdf)
Reader XML document Reader (.xml .xmi)
Reader WORD 2007 reader (.docx)
Reader EXCEL 2007 reader (.docx)
Reader POWERPOINT 2007 reader (.docx)
Engine Analyse cohesive group of requirements (helps on impact analysis)
OS     Run on Linux platform


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