Trips-R-You Example

The case study captures requirements for a web-based Flight Reservation System in MS Excel spreadsheets.

Customers managing requirements for complex HW/SW products in Excel are often facing many problems. One of the main challenges is to maintain consistent traceability links. We will show how you can solve these issues in ReqView.

Goals

• Goal 1: Demonstrate that you can handle complex tabular data in ReqView

• Goal 2: Show advantages of powerful requirements management features to potential customers.

Scope

The case study describes a business information system, which maintains business-related data within a database management system (DBMS) and adds capabilities to:

• User Interfaces (UIs) — give online access to the stored data
• Reports — contain data stored in the system for referencing offline
• Imports — store data made available by another system
• Exports — store data for use by another system
• Automated Functions — create new data within the system based on data currently stored in the system

The case study uses three types of requirements for the above functionalities:

• Business Requirements — overview the problem and state business goals to be achieved
• High-Level Requirements — determine the chosen solution context and identify user needs (stakeholder requirements)
• Detailed Requirements — specify UI, report, data import, export, or automated function capabilities, and the data dictionary

Example Project screenshots

High-level requirements are displayed in ReqView:

Detailed Requirements - Visual representation of the data schema stored in the section “Data Model”:

Traceability column displaying upstream business goals and downstream detailed requirements for each high-level requirement:

Benefits

By managing requirements in ReqView instead of Excel you get the following advantages:

• get unique identifiers assigned automatically
• organize rows in a tree hierarchy easily
• describe requirements using rich text format and enhance the description by attached diagrams and embedded tables
• manage consistent Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) with minimal effort
• generate requirements traceability reports to analyze requirements coverage
• track changes of each requirement

References

1. Dan Tasker: Trips-R-You Flight Booking Case Study (v4.0)  
2. Blog post: Better Requirements Management Than in Excel