Geensoft launches Reqtify 2010-1a
Major new version of award-winning requirements traceability tool suite includes new and enhanced plug-in tools, features and interfaces
“Reqtify 2010 includes the most extensive range of new features
and functions that we have introduced,” said
Reqtify 2010 includes new Collaborative Project
Management and Reviewer plug-in tools. The new Collaborative Project Management
(CPM) plug-in considerably eases a previously painful and time-consuming
process for OEMs relating to the collection and management of design partners’ requirements
and traceability data. It enables project
managers to consolidate all projects and sub-projects into one global Reqtify
project, with automatic linkage of design artifacts to the original
requirements. This enables remote teams to more easily undertake global impact
analysis, measure requirements coverage and share results on an entire project
throughout the development lifecycle. The new CPM plug-in includes a specific
user management module allowing user profiles, rights and roles to be defined
in order to facilitate access control.
The Reviewer plug-in has also been completely re-built to make it more
visually oriented, facilitate workflow customisation and improve the management
of user rights.
Reqtify 2010’s range of new features is extensive. Links
management is critical to requirements traceability and Reqtify 2010 now
provides the ability to automatically highlight suspect links that have to be
validated as soon as changes occur to covered requirements. A new Links Detail
View has also been included where engineers can create, edit and analyse
traceability and dependencies between project artifacts. It is also possible to
define links as either traceability or dependency links so that the required
coverage calculation is obtained. A completely
reworked Management View enables engineers to easily check project progress and
metrics using visual indicators for traceability achievements, requirement
errors and quality. Rules Management has also been significantly improved with
a new rules management cockpit that enables existing rules to be
enabled/disabled using a simple check list and new rules to be created using a
simple, intuitive rules editor. A new
XML-based tester enables pre-analysis of data to be undertaken prior to the
allocation of specific document types to analysis reports. Filters can now be
defined with variable values instead of having to define separate filters for
each value.
Reqtify 2010 also includes a range of new and enhanced interfaces.
A new Eclipse CDT interface and tagger overcomes a major hole in Eclipse
Workbench enabling requirements traceability to be easily added to the C/C++
code generated using the CDT capability. The IBM-Rational DOORS interface has
also been upgraded to include Full Hierarchy analysis which can be used when
there is no clear definition of Sections and Requirements. The interface for HP Quality Center has also
been significantly enhanced to include support for Version 10. Improvements
have also been made to the Microsoft Office suite and to Sparx Enterprise
Architect interfaces.
“With over 10,000 users in 500 companies in Europe, North America
and Asia, the launch of Reqtify 2010 further reinforces our position as the
market leader in the automated management of requirements gathering,
traceability and impact analysis for embedded systems,” said Eliane Fourgeau,
CEO of Geensoft. “It also highlights our
commitment to the ongoing development of our products and importance as a
strong, independent player in the market for embedded systems design tools
following our recent management buy-out from Geensys.”
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About Reqtify
Reqtify is the most widely deployed solution for addressing requirements capture, traceability and impact analysis in the most demanding, safety-critical domains such as the aerospace and defence, railway transportation, automotive and medical instrumentation industries. Reqtify enables automatic and customisable document generation as evidence that a product meets certification and/or quality constraint requirements at all times throughout the development cycle. Thanks to its impact analysis and requirements coverage capabilities, Reqtify gives all project stakeholders a thorough insight into the effort required to complete each project task (specification, design, V&V activities, integration) and for each product release. It gives a unique and global view of the overall project status enabling project leaders and quality managers to perform risk analyses and to prove compliancy with project requirements and constraints. As such, Reqtify is recognised as a solution that can provide an immediate return-on-investment for projects initiated under quality standards objectives like CMMI or Spice. It has also been deployed or qualified for application development under certification constraints like DO178C, DO254, EN50128, IEC 61508, ISO26262, FDA 21CFR Part 11, MODAF and DoDAF. With Reqtify, engineers can continue to use their existing working environments to fulfill traceability objectives.
