List of requirements engineering tools explained

Requirements engineering tools are usually software products to ease the RE processes and allow for more systematic and formalized handling of requirements, change management and traceability.^{[1] [2]}

The PMI guide Requirements Management: A Practical Guide recommends that a requirements tool should be identified at the beginning of the project, as [requirements] traceability can get complex and that switching tool mid-term could present a challenge.^[3]

According to ISO/IEC TR 24766:2009,^[4] six major tool capabilities exist:

1. Requirements elicitation
2. Requirements analysis
3. Requirements specification
4. Requirements verification and validation
5. Requirements management
6. Other capabilities

Note that INCOSE and Project Performance International (PPI) maintain an official database of tools, the Systems Engineering Tools Database (SETDB).^[5]

RE tool list

As with most software, the vendor/owner, tool name or scope change over time.

Note that compliance with, for example, safety standards such as ISO 26262 is supported by few tools directly or indirectly via specialist consulting.^{[6] [7]}

Unlike the major six tool capabilities (see above), the following categories are introduced for the list, which correlate closer with the product marketing or summarizes capabilities, such as RM including the elicitation, analysis and specification parts, and TM meaning verification & validation capabilities.

Specialties, such as OSLC-support, are not presented in the current list, but exist for some tools.^{[8] [9]}

List capabilities

• Agile: The tool supports agile methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, collaborative working etc.
• ALM: Application lifecycle management (meaning, the tool offers a full set of capabilities or can be extended)
• CM: Configuration management (software or hardware)
• ISM: Issue resolution management (or problem resolution management)^[10]
• PDM: Product data management
• PLM: Product lifecycle management
• PJM: Project management
• RM: Requirements management incl. design, specification, etc.
• TM: Test management (QA)
• VCS: Version control system
• VM_MBSE: Visual/UI/UX modeling or MBSE (Model-based systems engineering)
• Other: Other

Excluded capabilities (limited list)

• CI/CD
• Process management (Process design, etc.)
• QM: Quality management
• Risk management
• Release/Patch management
• Safety or Security
• Variants management

RE tool list

			Scope/Capabilities*
Name	Vendor	Agile	ALM	CM	ISM	PDM	PLM	PJM	RM	TM	VCS	VM_MBSE	Other	License type
Spicy SE^[11]	Spicy SE		x	x					x	x	x	x	Arch	Commercial
acunote	Pluron Inc.	x												Commercial
agosense.fidelia	agosense GmbH								x					Commercial
DocSheets	Goda Software	x	x						x	x				Commercial
Aha!	Aha! Labs					x			x					Commercial
Aligned Elements	Aligned AG		x						x	x				Commercial
Quality Center	Micro Focus		x		x			x	x	x				Commercial
ALM Octane	Micro Focus	x							x	x				Commercial
Auros IQ	Auros LLC	x			x	x	x	x	x		x	x	CAD	Commercial
Axosoft	Axosoft	x							x					Commercial
Azure DevOps	Microsoft	x	x		x				x	x				Commercial
Balsamiq Wireframes	Balsamiq								x			x		Commercial
Business Optix	Business Optix											x		Commercial
Cameo Systems Modeler	No Magic Inc. (since 2018 part of Dassault Systèmes)^[12]								x			x		Commercial
Capella	Eclipse Foundation											x		Eclipse Public License
CaseComplete	Serlio Software								x			x		Commercial
codeBeamer ALM	Intland Software GmbH	x	x						x	x				Commercial
Cognition Cockpit	Cognition Corporation					x		x	x	x				Commercial
Cradle	3SL							x	x			x		Commercial
Dimensions RM	Micro Focus								x					Commercial
Eclipse (IDE) Papyrus	Eclipse Foundation											x		Eclipse Public License
Enterprise Architect	Sparx Systems	x	x					x	x^[13]			x		Commercial
FRET		x							x					NASA open source
Helix RM	Perforce	x	x						x	x				Commercial
Rational DOORS	IBM			x					x	x				Commercial
Rational Rhapsody	IBM		x						x	x		x^[14]		Commercial
DOORS Next (Jazz)	IBM		x						x	x				Commercial
innoslate	SPEC Innovations								x					Commercial
Innovator for Business Analysts	MID GmbH								x			x		Commercial
in-STEP BLUE	microTool GmbH							x	x	x				Commercial
iRise	iRise	x							x			x		Commercial
Jama Connect	Jama Software							x	x	x				Commercial
Jira	Atlassian	x			x			x	x					Commercial
Kanban Flow	CodeKick AB	x												Commercial
Kanban Tool	Shore Labs	x												Commercial
kanbanize	kanbanize	x							x					Commercial
Kovair ALM	Kovair Software, Inc.	x	x				x	x	x	x				Commercial
LeanKit	Planview, Inc.	x												Commercial
MagicDraw	No Magic Inc. (since 2018 part of Dassault Systemes)											x		Commercial
Matrix ALM/QMS	Matrix Requirements GmbH	x	x						x	x	x			Commercial
Marvel App	Marvel	x								x		x		Commercial
Minerva PLM	Minerva Group A/S			x			x		x				x	Commercial
Swiftly	Orca Intelligence	x	x						x		x	x		Commercial
Modelio Analyst	Modeliosoft								x			x		Commercial
Modern Requirements4DevOps	eDev Technologies								x			x		Commercial
objectiF	microTool GmbH								x			x		Commercial
objectiF RPM	microTool GmbH	x						x	x			x		Commercial
OneDesk Product Management	OneDesk Inc.					x			x					Commercial
OpenPDM	PROSTEP Inc. (see also ProSTEP iViP)					x	x							Commercial
OpenProject	OpenProject GmbH	x						x						GPL3
OSRMT		x							x					GPL2
PivotalTracker	PivotalLabs	x												Commercial
Polarion	Siemens PLM Software	x	x		x			x	x	x	x			Commercial
PREEvision	Vektor Informatik GmbH					x			x			x		Commercial
Psoda	Psoda	x						x	x	x				Commercial
QVscribe	QVscribe								x					Commercial
R4J - Requirements Management for Jira	ease solutions Pte Ltd	x	x		x	x			x					Commercial
Rally Software	Broadcom	x							x					Commercial
RaQuest	SparxSystems Japan Co., Ltd								x					Commercial
ReqEdit	REQTEAM GmbH								x					Commercial
ReqSuite RM	OSSENO Software GmbH								x					Commercial
ReQtest	ReQtest AB	x							x	x				Commercial
RequirementONE	RequirementOne Inc.								x					Commercial
ReqView	Eccam s.r.o.	x							x		x			Commercial
Retina	Intland Software GmbH	x							x	x				Commercial
RMsis	Optimizory Technologies Pvt. Ltd.	x							x	x				Commercial
rmToo	flonatel GmbH & Co. KG	x							x					GPL3
RMTrak	Prometeo Technologies								x					Commercial
Scrumwise	x													Commercial
ScrumWorks Pro	CollabNet	x												Commercial
SOX2 RM	Engineers Consulting GmbH								x					Commercial
Specification Wizard	MeetAdd								x					Commercial
SpiraTeam	Inflectra	x						x	x	x				Commercial
Storyteller	Blueprint Software Systems, Inc.								x			x		Commercial
storywise	ireo GmbH								x					Commercial
SwiftKanban	Digité Inc.	x												Commercial
Targetprocess	Targetprocess Inc.	x												Commercial
Tuleap Enterprise	enalean	x							x					Commercial
Valispace	Valispace GmbH	x				x		x	x	x	x	x		Commercial
VersionOne	CollabNet	x				x			x					Commercial
Visual Paradigm	Visual Paradigm International	x										x		Commercial
Visure Requirements	Visure Solutions, Inc.				x				x	x				Commercial
Windchill RV&S	PTC								x	x				Commercial
Yodiz	Yodiz	x												Commercial
Yonix	Yonix Ltd.								x					Commercial

Other tools, developments, specialities

• ReqInspector^{[15] [16]}
• ReqIF - For example to transfer requirements data from one tool to another (e. g. DOORS to DOORS Next^[17])
• Doorstop (hosted on GitHub)

Further reading

• Winning the Hidden Battle: Requirements Tool Selection and Adoption^[18]
• Evaluation of Open Source Tools for Requirements Management^[19]
• A case study of requirements management: Toward transparency in requirements management tools^[20]
• Modeling requirements with SysML (IREB, 2015)
• Is requirements engineering still needed in agile development approaches? (IREB, 2015)
• DOORS: A Tool to Manage Requirements
• Risto Salo et al. Requirements management in GitHub with a lean approach (2015)

See also

• Application lifecycle management (ALM)
• Change management (engineering)
• ISO/IEC 12207
• List of SysML tools
• List of Unified Modeling Language tools
• Model-based systems engineering (MBSE)
• Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
• Product lifecycle management (PLM)
• Product management
• Requirements analysis
• Requirements engineering
• Requirements management
• Scope management
• Software development process
• Systems engineering tools

External links

• www.um.es/giisw/EN/re-tools-survey
• https://www.ppi-int.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/PPI-005107-8-Requirements-Management-Tools-190403-1.pdf

Notes and References

1. Web site: What is Requirements Management. 2021-03-23. www.ibm.com. en-us.
2. Carrillo de Gea. Juan M.. Nicolás. Joaquín. Alemán. José L. Fernández. Toval. Ambrosio. Ebert. Christof. Vizcaíno. Aurora. July 2011. Requirements Engineering Tools. IEEE Software. 28. 4. 86–91. 10.1109/MS.2011.81. 1921630 . 0740-7459.
3. Web site: 2016-01-01. Requirements Management: A Practice Guide. 2021-04-05.
4. Web site: ISO/IEC TR 24766:2009. 2021-03-22. ISO. en.
5. Web site: Check e.g. MBSE tools on PPI / INCOSE's tools example page. . 2023-03-24 . www.systemsengineeringtools.com.
6. Web site: Download now: "Automate Lifecycle Governance and Compliance for Automotive Software Systems" How To Accelerate Functional Safety in ISO 26262, SPICE, and CMMI. 2021-03-22. polarion.plm.automation.siemens.com. en.
7. Web site: Home - Validas AG. 2021-03-22. validas.de.
8. Web site: 2019-04-12. Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration integrations. 2021-04-22. www.ibm.com. en-us.
9. Web site: About. 2021-04-22. open-services.net. en-us.
10. Web site: SUP.9 – Problem Resolution Management - Kugler Maag Cie. 2021-03-23. www.kuglermaag.com.
11. Web site: Spicy SE .
12. Web site: No Magic Acquisition Completed: Dassault Systèmes Strengthens Foothold in Systems Engineering to Facilitate New Connected Experiences. 2021-10-15. www.3ds.com. 27 January 2020 . en.
13. Web site: Requirements Management using Enterprise Architect's Specification Manager. 2021-04-22. sparxsystems.com. en.
14. Web site: Engineering Systems Design Rhapsody - Overview. 2021-04-22. www.ibm.com. en-us.
15. Web site: ReqInspector – Requirements Engineering Magazine. 2021-03-22. ReqInspector – Requirements Engineering Magazine. en.
16. Book: Morais Ferreira, David. Automated Creation of a Database for the Analysis of the Completeness of German Natural Language Requirements. 2018. Kaiserslautern.
17. Web site: Use ReqIF to move data from DOORS to DOORS Next. 2021-04-22. www.ibm.com. en-us.
18. Book: Beatty, Joy. 2013 21st IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE) . Winning the hidden battle: Requirements tool selection and adoption . July 2013. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6636753. Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brazil. IEEE. 364–365. 10.1109/RE.2013.6636753. 978-1-4673-5765-4. 206524062 .
19. Book: Santana. Sonia R.. Perero. Lucrecia R.. Delduca. Amalia G.. Dapozo. Gladys N.. Computer Science – CACIC 2019 . Evaluation of Open Source Tools for Requirements Management . 2020. Pesado. Patricia. Arroyo. Marcelo. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-48325-8_13. Communications in Computer and Information Science. 1184. en. Cham. Springer International Publishing. 188–204. 10.1007/978-3-030-48325-8_13. 978-3-030-48325-8. 219428943 .
20. Web site: Johan . van der Heide. 09013 Amalthea. 2021-03-22. itea3.org.