Title :
TRAM: a tool for requirements and architecture management
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Network Comput., Monash Univ., Frankston, Vic., Australia
Abstract :
Management of system requirements and system architectures is part of any software engineering project. But it is usually very tedious and error prone. In particular, managing the traceability between system requirements and system architectures is critical but difficult. The article introduces a tool, TRAM, for managing system requirements, system architectures and more importantly the traceability between them. Its primary design objective is “being practical” and ready for practitioners to use without much overhead. The issues discussed in the paper include an information model that underlies the capture of requirements, architectures and their traceability, a set of document templates implementing the information model, and the support tool
Keywords :
computer aided software engineering; formal specification; program diagnostics; software development management; software tools; TRAM; design objective; document templates; information model; requirements management; requirements/architecture management tool; software engineering project; software engineering tools; support tool; system architectures; system requirements; traceability; Australia; Computer architecture; Computer network management; Computer networks; Engineering management; Machine vision; Project management; Software engineering; System analysis and design; System testing;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Science Conference, 2001. ACSC 2001. Proceedings. 24th Australasian
Conference_Location :
Gold Coast, Qld.
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0963-0
DOI :
10.1109/ACSC.2001.906624