Enhance requirements funcionality

[tstr]

Hi all,

first of all congratulations to all the developers and managers, I think Testlink is a great tool, it can hardly be given more for less.

Compared to the great functionality available for testing I think that requirements support is a little bit poor nowadays and I wish to suggest a couple of enhancements:

- Allow references to other requirements
- Enable additional fields/custom fields
- Enable requirement and document versions

Is any of those enhancements planned for next releases?

Many thanks.

[fman]

main TL focus is test management, not requirement management, for req management our idea is use another specific open source tool.

[tstr]

Hi fman,

I've got no doubts about the main goal for Testlink development but I consider that there is a gap between test and requirement management tools that only Testlink can fill.

That gap arises because Testlink allows a link between a requirement and a test case. It is great that it allows TC versions but, what happens with requirements versions? In systems with early requirement specs the TC become obsolete quite frequently and it'd be great to track what TCs should be updated after changes in the requirements.

Then if it's considered that enhancement, it may be worth to add a little more functionality to the requirements management, not to create a full manager but at least for enabling a big new functionality for a not so big effort.

By the way, can you recommend any open source reqs manager?

Many thanks for your reply.

Antonio.

[mkbutler]

tstr,

One feature that has been added in 1.8 is a requirements tree. Details in this thread.
http://www.teamst.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=1333

MArk B.

[fman]

Please remember that req tree in on development , i.e. some features do not use tree.
See mantis for details

[mkbutler]

fman,

I was willing to see if I could do some of that work. I tried to post to the google group about where to get started but my message never showed up.

MArk B.

[smeyn]

main TL focus is test management, not requirement management, for req management our idea is use another specific open source tool.

I agree to that. Requirements Management can become quite sophisticated. We use separate requirements management and I need to export changes into testlink.
Now that does mean that I need two features:
a) versions of requirements (so that I can do impact analysis)
b) the ability to extract the link between requirements and test cases via the API

a) is essential to me. b) is a very nice to have. It means I can manage all my traceability in my requirements management tool.

Cheers
Stephan

[mkbutler]

main TL focus is test management, not requirement management, for req management our idea is use another specific open source tool.

Hey fman,

I spent a couple of hours yesterday on source forge trying to find a decent req management tool and came up short. There are a several there of course but none of them seems to be full featured AND active. Which one(s) were you guys thinking of integrating with?

MArk B.

[smeyn]

We use Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect.
I agree, there does not appear to be anything in the open source arena that is actually useful

[havlatm]

I will contact you via email.
I also have not personal experience with OS req. management tool. I know that there is OSMRT project, which could be usable. But I have no reference about.