Adds DevSpec, other tools, at company user conference
TechExcel added requirements management to its arsenal at its 2007 Worldwide Users Conference and Training Summit in San Francisco, held last month.
The company introduced DevSpec, an integrated requirements management framework designed to provide visibility and traceability in project requirements. DevSpec allows developers to create new requirements and specifications that can be linked to development and testing implementation projects.
DevSpec provides automatic requirement versioning that
triggers whenever specified changes are made, and uses a central data
repository—running on either Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle
Database—for requirements and specifications.
DevSpec groups requirements into specifications,
which can then be manipulated. Developers can prioritize requirements,
and be informed when any of the requirements are modified.
“The requirements can change, but that may or may
not mean the specification changes,” explained Paul Unterberg, senior
product manager of TechExcel. “It’s really up to the owners of the
downstream development path and QA testing plan to look and see what
this change means to them.”
Alex Gaber, director of business development for
TechExcel, said that DevSpec would compete in the requirements
management space with the likes of Telelogic Doors and IBM Rational
RequisitePro.
The new KnowledgeWise leverages intellectual
assets and links ideas and customer feedback to specific areas of a
development project. Documents can be shared with all parties involved
in the execution. The .NET-based tool can be integrated with all
TechExcel products, including DevSpec, DevPlan and ServiceWise, and can
use a variety of database back ends, including those from Microsoft,
MySQL and Oracle.
“From a product management standpoint, if I wanted
to see what the top requested features of my product are, I can load
KnowledgeWise, and based on those attributes that each document has, I
can see the top requests,” Unterberg said.
Another new addition to TechExcel’s product base
is SpecDD, an agile development tool that starts with the premise that
designs and requirements have to be agile, but within a structured
development process. Unterberg called it a “high-level framework that
develops software, and measures designs around that development.”
Unterberg said that TechExcel, with the help of
these new products, is trying to help businesses represent their ideal
working processes in a way that’s easy to implement. “Those processes
can be modeled and enforced within our software, but they don’t get in
the way of people using the software. Our interface allows them to use
those tools in a process-enforced way, and get meaningful data from
that tool use.”
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