Comments for Professionally Confused - Egor Shokurov's blog http://www.shokurov.com All about usability, software development management and precious search. Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:54:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Egor Shokurov http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-19 Egor Shokurov Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:54:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-19 Following Testlink discussion: This looks promising, however unmature. Good things to note:<br/>- Well integrated into testing environment<br/>- Easy to use<br/>It lacks:<br/>- Categorization of reqs (keywords at least would help but they are not assignable to requirements)<br/>- Custom fields in reqs (again they are available in test specs, so I suppose they will appear in requirements soon)<br/>- Text import of requirements document<br/><br/>Overall it seems to be designed to support external requirements management system rather than implement one internally. Following Testlink discussion: This looks promising, however unmature. Good things to note:
- Well integrated into testing environment
- Easy to use
It lacks:
- Categorization of reqs (keywords at least would help but they are not assignable to requirements)
- Custom fields in reqs (again they are available in test specs, so I suppose they will appear in requirements soon)
- Text import of requirements document

Overall it seems to be designed to support external requirements management system rather than implement one internally.

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Egor Shokurov http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-18 Egor Shokurov Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:43:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-18 To chris:<br/><br/>I reviewed briefly <a HREF="http://www.acceptsoftware.com/" REL="nofollow">Accept</a>. Haven't enough time to test it, however from first view it looks promising for high level business goals and requirements management. It is a great solution for high volume products, when feature planning largely interferes with business planning. My original goal was more focused on operational tracking of features and their implementation. What I was looking at was a tool closer to developers, than to executives. For higher level planning I used to Excel, and I stand it is far more flexible. However Accept can be useful for companies where optimization of product management resources is much needed (including commong workflows, out of the box product planning process automation etc.). To chris:

I reviewed briefly Accept. Haven’t enough time to test it, however from first view it looks promising for high level business goals and requirements management. It is a great solution for high volume products, when feature planning largely interferes with business planning. My original goal was more focused on operational tracking of features and their implementation. What I was looking at was a tool closer to developers, than to executives. For higher level planning I used to Excel, and I stand it is far more flexible. However Accept can be useful for companies where optimization of product management resources is much needed (including commong workflows, out of the box product planning process automation etc.).

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Egor Shokurov http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-17 Egor Shokurov Mon, 10 Nov 2008 13:27:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-17 <i>Have you tried TestLink? v1.7.3 and up has Requirement Specification support.</i><br /><br/><br/>Our QA department is evaluating TestLink now. I'll use the moment to evaluate its Req. tracking capabilities. Have you tried TestLink? v1.7.3 and up has Requirement Specification support.

Our QA department is evaluating TestLink now. I’ll use the moment to evaluate its Req. tracking capabilities.

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Anonymous http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-16 Anonymous Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:24:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-16 Have you tried TestLink? v1.7.3 and up has Requirement Specification support.<br/><br/>--<br/> MikaT Have you tried TestLink? v1.7.3 and up has Requirement Specification support.

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]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Chris http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-15 Chris Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:46:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-15 Have you considered using Accept. It has good functionality for tracing Functional Requirements to Business Requirements and also allows Agile concepts like Stack Ranking Product Backlog and Iterations to be part of the process Have you considered using Accept. It has good functionality for tracing Functional Requirements to Business Requirements and also allows Agile concepts like Stack Ranking Product Backlog and Iterations to be part of the process

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Egor Shokurov http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-14 Egor Shokurov Thu, 29 May 2008 07:57:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-14 We are using Mantis and Excel as of right now. Given simplicity of both it is really great solution for the amount of reqs we have (up to few hundreds per project). We are using Mantis and Excel as of right now. Given simplicity of both it is really great solution for the amount of reqs we have (up to few hundreds per project).

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Anonymous http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-13 Anonymous Wed, 28 May 2008 15:29:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-13 Any news on this? We're currently looking for requirements tracking software and are using mantis for bug tracking. Any news on this? We’re currently looking for requirements tracking software and are using mantis for bug tracking.

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Lans http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-12 Lans Sat, 27 Oct 2007 14:09:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-12 Check out <a HREF="http://www.wrike.com" REL="nofollow">this</a> software. I use it for project management, planning and bug tracking. It aloows task tagging and submitting bugs via email. Check out this software. I use it for project management, planning and bug tracking. It aloows task tagging and submitting bugs via email.

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Egor Shokurov http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-11 Egor Shokurov Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:58:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-11 Well, no ultimate decision yet. We are contionuing evaluation of RequisitePro on one projectt and working with Trac on another one.<br/><br/>In your case you didn't specify whether or not you have resources to customize a solution or you want it out of the box. In case you are able to do some customizations I'd recommend to look at OSRMT. It does most of what you need, however you'll need to deal with Excel and Jira on your own. Well, no ultimate decision yet. We are contionuing evaluation of RequisitePro on one projectt and working with Trac on another one.

In your case you didn’t specify whether or not you have resources to customize a solution or you want it out of the box. In case you are able to do some customizations I’d recommend to look at OSRMT. It does most of what you need, however you’ll need to deal with Excel and Jira on your own.

]]> Comment on Good Requirements Tracking SW (preferrably open source)? by Anonymous http://www.shokurov.com/?p=9&cpage=1#comment-10 Anonymous Wed, 14 Feb 2007 15:36:00 +0000 http://shokurov.com/?p=9#comment-10 Curious to know what your ultimate decision was. I'm looking for a requirements tracking tool, too. My main must-haves are:<br/><br/>* integration with JIRA<br/>* filterable, searchable, and sortable artifacts list<br/>* MySQL back end<br/>* customizable fields<br/>* data export to Excel<br/>* priority setting<br/>* role-based permissions<br/>* Web client interface<br/><br/>Have you seen Polarion?<br/><br/>DK. Curious to know what your ultimate decision was. I’m looking for a requirements tracking tool, too. My main must-haves are:

* integration with JIRA
* filterable, searchable, and sortable artifacts list
* MySQL back end
* customizable fields
* data export to Excel
* priority setting
* role-based permissions
* Web client interface

Have you seen Polarion?

DK.

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