January 21, 2009 - LDRA has created new technology that automates the administration and traceability of software requirements. This technology automates the techniques and tools for the integration of requirements traceability with software testing and verification. The technology is integrated into TBreq, the portion of the LDRA tool suite devoted to requirements-driven testing. LDRA’s automation of requirements-driven testing and traceability addresses an urgent need in safety- and mission-critical industries such as avionics, medical, defense, and nuclear where requirements traceability and verification consume a significant portion of project budgets.
The technology automatically captures requirement information for software development projects from a wide variety of sources and simplifies the construction of a requirements traceability matrix (RTM). Building on proven technology that verifies software to the most exacting industry standards, LDRA has reached beyond the time-consuming, manual techniques associated with managing requirements traceability and is proud to unveil a solution for automating the construction of requirements traceability matrixes and enforcing the industry-accepted best practice of placing requirements as the focal point for software development and testing. The new technology enables developers to:
- Establish a baseline of selected software requirements from which development and testing will begin
- Delegate the tasks associated with each requirement to members of the development team
- Associate source code with each requirement, thereby automating the creation of trace relationships
- Refine source code mappings to the level of class or even individual functions
- Verify requirements according to a wide variety of analyses and tests performed on the mapped code
- Automatically link requirements, test cases and code coverage results in a unified view of all levels of testingThese powerful new features will be integrated into the TBmanager Dashboard area of TBreq v3.0, bringing TBreq a quantum leap forward in its ability to manage complex, many-to-many relationships among requirements in multiple levels of a requirements hierarchy.
The new TBmanager Dashboard will make this matrix readily accessible and visible to the developers’ workstation for verification and will automatically link test results to enterprise-level reports and a centralized requirements repository.
About the LDRA tool suite
The LDRA tool suite has been derived from many ground-breaking testing techniques developed by LDRA.
The LDRA tool suite assists with the eight primary tasks: traceability verification, design, code and quality review, unit testing, target testing, test verification and test management.
Focus on all of these key areas is required to achieve an organization’s software development and maintenance goals.
The LDRA tool suite can be used by an entire project team, including developers, QA managers, test engineers, project managers and maintenance/support engineers, to automate the software development lifecycle.
Through the deployment of the LDRA tool suite, companies are able to deliver well constructed, documented and tested software and benefit from significant time, cost and operational savings.