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ReqIf – standardising interchange?

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Just to drop a few quick lines on the side of this article from the most recent IREB Magazine issue: Open Up . The leading Automotive companies (both OEMs and suppliers) already picked up the lead in developing an open requirements exchange standard. And maybe this is the most important word here: standard. They are the most affected, so with a great interest in aligning exchange. Then my thoughts: how about open-source requirements management tools? There are already some, but any chance soon any of them could emerge above all and replace the established ones, DOORS for instance? Especially should we see a wide acceptance of the also open source ReqIF for requirements exchange? It’s clear that a tool shall implement a number of features needed by a Requirements Management (RM) process, the actual exchange being just one aspect currently needing improvement. But tools still need to support features like traceability, versioning, scalability, integrations, roles, and Configuration Manag...

3D UML Modelling?

  Developed on top of Google SketchUp? That’s interesting. I thought it dead since Google sold it to Trimble and it went silent for the least to say, as it got to be a paid tool now. This has been tweeted today, even though the news is from 2009: UML in 3D - #oldiebutgoldie http://t.co/EqgSNudYCA — Jordi Cabot (@JordiCabot) September 6, 2014 Would be interested in further development of the concept, in a more professional look & feel for using in practice, provided it was shown effective. Would be interested in seeing some further development of the concept, in a more professional look & feel, some more robust and serious approach for using in practice, provided it was shown effective. Found some other shots as well, not sure whether the same team/tool: X3D-UML: Refined 3D UML State Machine Diagram Refined 3D UML visualisation of a complex state machine diagram. From a PhD in advanced 3D UML visualisation through X3D. http://www.x3d-uml.org This state machine diagra...