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Tool Support for Requirements Management

publish date: 2026/06/06 22:28:7.239111 UTC

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Requirements management needs automated tool support for which three purposes? Select all that apply.

Acceptance testing — running test cases against the deployed system

Change management — simplifying the process of assessing and managing change proposals

Requirements storage — maintaining requirements in a secure, managed data store accessible to everyone involved

Code generation — automatically converting requirements into source code

Traceability management — discovering related requirements and relationships between requirements and design

Correct Answer

(1) Requirements storage — maintaining requirements in a secure, managed data store accessible to everyone involved

(2) Change management — simplifying the process of assessing and managing change proposals

(3) Traceability management — discovering related requirements and relationships between requirements and design

Explanation

Tool support for requirements management is needed for three purposes: (1) Requirements storage in a secure, managed, accessible data store; (2) Change management to simplify the process; (3) Traceability management to allow related requirements to be discovered. Some tools use natural language processing to discover possible relationships between requirements.

Reference

Software Engineering, Ian Sommerville, 9th edition

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