Tracer lets you trace your requirement from your System Requirements Specification through to System Design Specification, Test Plan and other Miscellaneous documents.
First, identify each of your requirements in your documents and give them a unique requirement id. The requirement id must be identified with the token SRS at the beginning, and then a four digit number, starting at 0001 as follows:
The system must be able to handle multiple users [SRS0001]. The system must have a response time of less than 3 seconds [SRS0002].
Many users document their test plans in excel spreadshseets. Just add a column called "requirement id" and put a requirement id beside each test case that will test the specific requirement id.
The documents may be in microsoft word (.doc) , excel spreadsheet (.xls) or PDF (.pdf) format.
After you have identified requirements in all your documents, use the upload functions to upload the documents to the Tracer website. Your documents are secure and won't be shared with anyone.
There are four upload functions, for each document type. You can upload as many documents as your project has: mulitple requirements documents, multiple test plans. Tracer will keep track of all your documents and requirements.
When finished, you are now ready to index your documents
The index documents function lets you select the number of requirements you want to index. The more requirements you have, and the larger the document file sizes, the longer it takes to index your documents.
The index function builds a database of your requirement id's, and keeps track of the documents they are found in.
After indexing your documents, you are now ready to produce a Requirements Traceability Report.
The Requirements Traceability function produces a report of each requirement, and which document that requirement id is found, by document type.
Use the report to make sure that your requirements are showing up in the correct documents.
You can always fix up your documents, upload the corrected documents, run the index again, and re-produce the Requirements Traceability Report.
The report can be cut and paste into word documents, or into emails (change the email to type HTML).
Requirements Search
The Index Documents function has created an index of all words and terms used in your documents.
You can search your documents for a specific requirement id, or use a wildcard (SRS00*). You can also search for any terms, with boolean operators. (interface AND payroll). It's like having your own private Yahoo or Google search of your documents.
The search will return document names that contain the search terms.
Browse Documents
This function lets you review the names of documents you have uploaded, by document type.
You can choose to delete a document. Please use the Index Documents function after deleting a document to update your Requirements Traceability Report.
Reset Traceability
This function deletes all uploaded documents, delete requirements from your database, and resets all search indexes.
Use Reset when you want to start working on another project.
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