What's New in IRQA 4.1?

• Role-Based User Interface
• Aided Traceability
• Electronic Signature
• New Plug-In support Functionality
• New Hyperlinks in the IRQA Integration Platform
• Enhanced Exports Mechanisms

IRQA is a state-of-the-art Requirements Engineering (RE) tool specifically designed to provide an integral support to the complete Requirements Engineering process. IRQA is suited for companies looking for a solution to define and implement their requirements processes. IRQA is flexible enough to fit in a wide range of companies with basic and complex RDM needs.

IRQA RE tool helps teams to build high-quality systems requirements specifications: users can capture and manage requirements, analyze them in relation with the business domain in which they are categorized, and represent the system being built by means of clear and expressive techniques, understandable directly by the end user. Besides, IRQA helps to manage the requirements and to trace them through the subsequent activities and stages in the system development. IRQA also adds graphical functions for supporting the specification organization for large and complex projects, guaranteeing the specification quality.

IRQA emphasis is not only on requirements management but also on requirements analysis, project organization and the description of the high-level functions which compose the system being constructed. As a result, IRQA streamlines your software Requirement Management process to increase your efficiency and effectiveness in systems development by using state-of-the-art Requirement Engineering methodologies and techniques.

IRQA also provides an intuitive and easy to use interface to manage requirements and other elements, in order to reduce end users learning curve and implementation time.

IRQA Block Diagrams
Additionally to the usual textual view to manage requirements, users will now be able to standardize your Requirements process in the company with the help of the easy to use graphical models: 'block diagrams'. These interactive blocks diagrams will allow you to represent your 'navigate' through the specification, focusing on the elements you want to work with, representing and managing visually the traceability between the elements, and sharing the structure between all the users of the system.

IRQA Document View
IRQA 4 'intelligent' document view allows to represent this classification and the requirements they contain in a document like view.
This document view is displayed as a MS Word template, in which each chapter and subchapter corresponds to each one of the different types and subtypes of requirements defined in the block diagram.
End users will find an intuitive and easy to use "Requirements template" they will only have to fill in.
IRQA 4 provides a state-of-the-art reusability feature that allows sharing requirements among projects in different sharing modes (share, copy&link and copy). This new capabilities allows to define a set of "reusable components" which live in different versions in different projects at the same time.

IRQA Workflows
Requirements lifecycle and many other workflows can now be represented graphically in IRQA attending the different transitions and User Groups (user profiles) existing in the project. Each transition can be provided with specific scripts that will trigger actions within IRQA, like:

• Sending a notification email to the users involved when accepting/rejecting a requirement
• Sending an accepted requirement to a Project Management or SDM tool.
• Triggering a change in a requirement's attribute

IRQA Report Manager
The reporting capabilities in IRQA 4 provide a wide range of predefined reports in IRQA, exportable to many formats (RTF, HTML, PDF, XLS, CSV, etc.).

For the most demanding, the new IRQA Report Manager provides a flexible report designer where users will be able to create specific reports:

• Element reports
• Traceability reports
• Dashboards & metrics

IRQA Traceability
Between other methods, users can navigate through the relationships defined in the block diagram to establish or validate the traces between the elements, being able to filter rows or columns to display the non-related elements. This Traceability Matrix can be combined with the Block Diagram structure to represent the traceability between two indirectly related blocks.

IRQA Modelling
To complete the Requirements Engineering process, IRQA provides modelling features to represent Business Models, Requirements Modelling, and other models

IRQA Test Case Support
IRQA support Test Case definition inside the tool, in order to provide an all-in-one interface, where users can perform all the activities related to requirements within the same tool

IRQA Baselining
Even though IRQA is an easy to use tool, it includes powerful management features that cover the complete RDM process, including baseline management. Baselines can be created, recovered and compared.

IRQA Quality Analyzer
IRQA Quality Analyzer allows you to measure the quality of a particular requirement or a group of them. This will also allow you to early detect low quality requirements, indicating ways and tips for re-writing them. Therefore, the cost of rework will be dramatically reduced. Quality assurance is easy with Requirements Quality Analyzer. Furthermore, quality management information can be sampled at a project level, or at an engineer level, offering tips for process improvement.