ReqIf – standardising interchange?
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...