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Overview

rmToo is a free and open source requirements management tool that takes a unique approach to requirements management.

Philosophy

rmToo uses a different approach than most other requirements management tools: it comes as a command line tool which is optimized for handling requirements. The power of rmToo lies in the fact that the development environment can handle the input and output files - there is no need for a special tool set environment.

Example: If you need to handle baselines (and there often is), rmToo can be configured using a revision control system (e.g. git). The revision control system can handle different revisions, baselining, tagging, branching and many other things extremely well - there is no reason to reinvent the wheel and making it less efficient.

Let one thing do one thing.

Unique Feature Set

rmToo fits perfectly in a development environment using text editors and command line tools such as emacs, vi, eclipse, make, maven.

Input and Output

  • Simple text files as input - use your favorite editor
  • Many different output formats and artifacts are supported:
    • PDF - with links to dependent requirements
    • HTML - also with links to dependent requirements
    • Requirements dependency graph
    • Requirement count history graph
    • Lists of unfinished requirements including priority and effort estimation - e.g. for use in agile project development

Version Control Integration

  • Fully integrated revision control system: git
  • Usages: history, statistics and baseline handling

Organization and Quality

  • Topic based output handling provides a common set of files for different types of output (PDF, HTML, ...)
  • Complete support for automatic checking of constraints
  • Analytics modules: Heuristics help to evaluate the quality of requirements
  • Modules to support commercial biddings based on a given set of requirements

Development Features

  • Emacs mode files for editing requirements and topics included
  • Experimental output in XML
  • Fully integrated with Makefile handling of all artifacts
  • Fully modular design: additional output requires minimal effort
  • During parsing most common problems are detected: all syntax errors and also many semantic errors
  • Fully automated test environment - tests about 95% of the code and is shipped with rmToo packages to check for possible problems in different environments

What rmToo Is Not

rmToo is not a fully integrated, tries-to-do-everything tool with a colorful GUI or different database backends. It focuses on doing requirements management well in a text-based, command-line environment that integrates with your existing development workflow.