Estudo comparativo entre as ferramentas Visure e ReqTest para gerenciamento de requisitos

Abstract

In the development of a software project, there may be changes in requirements due to several factors, whether due to business changes or customer requirements. This can cause inconvenience to everyone involved in the project if not done correctly. Therefore, it is important to manage these changes. Requirements Engineering provides methods for these software development processes to occur in a way that avoids errors and duplications. And for that, it is necessary to have a control of the software requirements. In large projects, this control manually, through tables or spreadsheets, becomes unfeasible. With the pressure to deliver a large project as quickly as possible, requirements management becomes a tedious task that ends up being left aside due to the great complexity with which it is carried out, and this can generate errors that will become costly at the end of the project. Therefore, it is essential to use requirements management tools, which allow the versioning of requirements and their traceability so that failures and redundancies do not occur. This work aims to carry out a comparative research between the Visure and ReqTest tools, both tools are paid, but have a free evaluation. The tools have the necessary functionalities to partially meet the requirements management process, as will be explained later. It is expected that this document can help organizations to decide which tool to use for requirements management in the development of their software.