New Plugin for Model Based Requirements Management
Good news for business analysts and architects, software engineers, enterprise architects, systems engineers, and other users, who work with requirements! No Magic, Inc. presents a new plugin named Cameo Requirements Modeler, which provides full support for model-based requirements engineering. The plugin implements the requirements part of the OMG SysML standard and provides a means to import and manage requirements in the model. Requirements Interchange Format (ReqIF) makes the plugin open for requirements interchange among different requirements management tools.
Model-based requirements engineering brings the value of:
- Easy identification of the scope and potential consequence of any change.
- Single and consistent data source: requirements, processes, and design.
- Increased quality of requirements due to the automatic validation and better visibility.
- Saved time and resources as you are working in the same environment where your models are.
- Improved team communication with a simple and standard notation, clear diagrams, and a web-based report.
With this plugin you can:
- Import requirements in a ReqIF file from other requirements management tools, such as IBM DOORS 9.4 and 9.5, IBM DOORS Next Generation, PTC Integrity, Polarion, and Siemens Teamcenter.
- Trace from requirements to other model elements of business, software, or systems architecture and align requirements with your model.
- Analyze the impact of a change.
- Track metrics.
- Capture requirements in dedicated diagrams, matrixes, and tables.
- Document requirements.
- Extend the plugin by creating new requirement types and customizing the plugin’s functionality.
Glossary
 | Avoid confusion – use Glossary! Define your terms in one place and later use them everywhere in your project. Reuse glossaries in other projects. Glossary saves time by ensuring consistent usage of terminology in the organization. It also improves the communication between team members since terms are understood in the same way and definitions become visible everywhere the terms are used. Learn more |
New Software Engineering Portal for Sharing Projects
| Publish your project as interactive web portal and share it with stakeholders, including even those who are incapable of reading models in MagicDraw! The published web portal eliminates less needed elements from the model tree and proposes the most relevant views of software engineering project, such as Glossary, Requirements, Architecture, and Implementation. So you can discover your project in user-friendly and easily browsable environment. Learn more |  |
New Approach for Calculating Metrics
 | Need to perform a comprehensive analysis of current state of your project or get only the numerical evaluation of some particular aspect of it? Must track the evolution of your model over the course of time? Expect to have all the information represented in a user-friendly environment? Try the new approach for calculating metrics! Learn more |
Increased Modeling Efficiency
| The recent enhancements for modeling efficiency, such as smarter path layout, tabbed browsing, shorthand of creating diagrams, unified UI for symbols manipulation, and scope selection in tables, saves time, which allows focusing on what to model, but not how to model and keep the result well-formed. Learn more |  |
Extended Script Languages Support
 | Custom validation rules, derived properties, queries for smart packages, metric definitions, criteria for dependency matrices, and so forth can now be defined in any of the following languages: JavaScript, Jython, JRuby, Groovy, and BeanShell. Learn more |
Instance Tables
| Need to handle a huge amount of instance specifications? Feel annoyed about editing their slot values one by one in the limited-size cells of the Specification window? Try instance tables! Learn more |  |
UML 2.5 Support
 | As a honored member of OMG, we are proud to state that MagicDraw is a pioneer in support of the latest major UML standard. Learn more |
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