requirements management

requirements management

• NamoGuy

  I believe that CaliberRM still uses its own storage, but there is a link between the CaliberRM requirements and workitems created in VSTS. That was the Tracability screens that I had posted, it was trying to show how the CaliberRM requirement was linked to a workitem in VSTS.
  
  

• Gooberfish

  The caliber RM Client

  

  The Team Explorer View

  

  Requirement Details

  

  Tracability Details

  

  Tracability popup

  

  
  
  

• msr_noida

  I'd be interested in this info as well.
  
  

• unFalln

  Interesting, I thought that 3rd party tool integration with VSTS would be two-fold. They would need to be integrated into the IDE and also utilize the same data store.
  
  

• chucucon

  great, thanks for the reply. the literature on VS's website alludes to the tool providing out of the box functionality. good to know now that it will not be all that simple. ReqPro is a great tool, but pricey.
  

• Alexandre d9654039

  Thanks a lot for posting those.

  So are the Caliber requirements created as workitesm in VSTS ...does Caliber still ues its own Database server ..just curious to see what the integration points are and what it means for deploying both.

  thanks again

  
  

• Matthew Schimmel

  Do you know if there is a video avilable or some other demo showing the Beta of CaliberRM integration ..I would be very interested in seeing it.
  

• Azazel4506

  I can't seem to find a Webcast for the demo, but I know that the Visual Studio Launch events have demo's of the CaliberRM integration.  I'm doing the Team System presentation for Jacksonville, FL on 1/31 and the VPC image includes it in the Beta.

  I can tell you that the integration is pretty tight, that a new node shows up in Team Explorer in the VS IDE that allows a lot of the functionality included in the Caliber RM client tool.  I have seen a few things that didn't seem to work quite right, but given that both TFS and the CaliberRM tool are in Beta I wasn't very surprised.  If you want I can send you some screen shots from my VPC instance.

  http://www.borland.com/us/company/news/press_releases/2005/06_06_05_borland_brings_requirements_engineering_rigor_to_msvs2005_users.html

  
  
  

• Perry Mowbray

  As far as it has been explained to me, there is no 'out of the box' requirements solution.

  There are 3rd party tools that are working on integration with VSTS, CaliberRM being the most common I've seen mentioned. CaliberRM actually has a Beta working that integrates pretty well with the VS IDE. If you get a chance there is a VS Launch event that has a short demo of the working Beta.

  The other way I've seen suggested is creating your own customer workitem definition to include requirements, but this seems like a poor man version at best. It seems it would be hard to include all of the typical things that you find in a requirements tools outside of very basic requirement info.

  Hope this helps

  
  
  

• srem

  there is linking between the two, I just don't think that CaliberRM has changed the way in which it stores its main data store.
  
  
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