Requirements Exchange: From Specification Documents to Models

The documentation of customer needs from the source specifications in a modeling environment for allocating them to architectural elements needs efficient tools and techniques in requirement engineering. Once requirements are present in models, enhancement with suitable properties, classification, prioritization. and allocation on system architecture are then possible. A downside is that the customer needs are likely to evolve over time, and then, we would need to manually redo the modeling of the requirements. Then, what we want to avoid is the manual definition of the customer needs from the source documents as a requirements model in the target environment. We propose in this paper a solution to import and export in Papyrus MDT, a UML modeling tool, the customers´ needs from Microsoft documents using the Requirement Interchange Format, ReqIF.