Hi Everyone,
My company is currently looking into tools to manage use cases and
requirements.
Since these terms can mean a wide variety of things I'll give an example of
how we're using them:
*Requirement:* The product should be secure and protect the safety and
privacy of the user.
*Use Case:* The user logs on to the system.
*Sub-use case/scenario:* The user has mistyped their password while logging
in.
*Associated features: *Login screen, password security feedback, lost
password functionality, error feedback system.
*Associated users/actors: *Child, parent, administrator
We are developing a large number of these and there is a need to have them
organized and be able to analyze them.
We are currently looking at a number of different products:
*Product* *Vendor* *Pricing* 'Caliber
Analyst'<http://www.borland.com/us/products/caliber/index.html>
Borland $9,000 per concurrent user. $3,000 per named user. 'Quality
Center'<https://h10078.www1.hp.com/cda/hpms/display/main/hpms_content.jsp?zn=bto&cp=1-11-127-24_4000_100__>v
9.2 HP 'Rally Enterprise'<http://www.rallydev.com/requirements_management.jsp>
Rally
Software $35/user/month
'Gatherspace.com'<http://www.gatherspace.com/static/product2.html>
Gatherspace $15-$25/user/month 'Rational
RequisitePro'<http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/offerings/reqanalysis.html#reqpro>
IBM 5 user floating license for 1 year: $21,850 + suggested consulting of
$13,200 = $35K 'DevTrack' EE +
'DevSpec'<http://www.techexcel.com/solutions/alm/requirementsmgmt.html>
TechExcel $45K-$50K Requirements
Management<http://www.artifactsoftware.com/products/requirements.html>
Lighthouse $200-300 / yr / user
Jira<http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/features/>
Atlassian $1200-$4800 one time
OSRMT<http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=679500>
sourceforge free Contour <http://www.jamasoftware.com/contour.htm> Jama 10k
+ $255/user
Our requirements for the product are:
- Some degree of flexibility of entering different "levels of
specificity" of requirements and use-cases.
- Ability to link all types of objects (requirements, use cases,
sub-use-cases, features, users) with each other
- Ability to look for unlinked items so as not to lose them
- Ability to automatically generate charts/graphs of use-cases to
graphically show task flows
- We don't want an "all in one" solution that tries to do defect/bug
tracking, project management, business process management, etc. (we already
have other tools that do these things)
- We don't want a tool that prescribes a work process to us (we
already have our work processes and we need this to fit into what we have)
- While this is something we could invest a lot in, many of these
tools seem rediculously expensive for a tool that isn't really very complex.
We are currently leaning toward gatherspace.com for this reason.
*Have any of you used any of these tools or any others (there are many new
products in this area) that you would recommend?*
Thank you,
Jeff
________________________________________________________________________________
Jeff Axup, Ph.D.
Principal Consultant, Mobile Community Design Consulting, San Diego
Research: Mobile Group Research Methods, Social Networks, Group Usability
E-mail: axup <at> userdesign.com
Blog: http://mobilecommunitydesign.com
Moblog: http://memeaddict.blogspot.com
"Designers mine the raw bits of tomorrow. They shape them for the present
day." - Bruce Sterling
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