Project managers and test managers must always manage their projects around requirements, features and customer expectations. Business analysts and requirement engineers need to be able to capture and document requirements more preciously and accurately to avoid surprises when the system is delivered. Experience has shown that effective project management and effect test management can only happen if we can effectively manage requirements, features, use cases, and changes to all of these throughout the project. Most importantly, managing requirements and tracking progress in implementing those requirements are the only ways to deliver systems that meets customer expectations.

In this presentation, Dr. Magdy Hanna will show how Rommana™ , an integrated software lifecycle management methodology and tool uses SBDT™, Scenario-Based Methodology for Development Testing to manage requirements, use cases, and changes throughout the project. Some of the features that will be discussed in this presentation are:

Requirement Management Features

Using the Rommana™ Requirement Management component, you can:

• Define functional requirements, quality requirements and any other type of requirements as they fit within your project
• Import requirements from Microsoft Word or Excel files
• Maintain different versions of a requirement for different releases of the system
• Define Tasks, Risks, and Actions for a requirement
• Define Use Cases and Use Case Scenarios for a requirement
• Define all other types of Scenarios for a Requirement
• Declare a requirement as base-lined to control further changes
• Associate Change Requests to a base-lined or implemented requirement to create a new version of the requirement
• Plan different requirements for different releases of your system
• Associate different artifacts and models to provide more details for a requirement

Use Case Management Features

Using the Rommana™ Use Case management component you can:

• Define use cases to provide more details for a requirement
• Define use case scenarios for both development and testing
• Auto-validate use cases for completeness
• Maintains the traceability between Use Cases, Scenarios and Test Cases

Change Management Features

Using the Rommana™ Change Management component you can:

• Create change requests, either based on an existing requirements, or just as a new feature
• Associate change requests to existing requirements to create new versions of the requirement
• Allow developers to provide impact-analysis information for each change request for the test team to use for effective regression testing.

Dr. Hanna is a recognized educator, speaker and consultant in several areas of software engineering. His distinguished seminars on various topics have been highly rated by software professionals. Dr. Hanna's experience with software goes back to the mid 1970's when he worked as a developer at the NCR center in Cairo , Egypt . Over the last thirty years, Dr. Hanna has worked in all aspects of software projects and processes in all capacities.

Dr. Hanna is the founder, CEO and Chairman of the International Institute for Software Testing, (www.iist.org) the leading educational and professional development organization that provides education-based certifications to software test and quality professionals around the world.

Dr. Hanna is the founder and Chairperson of the International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing, (www.PSQTconference.com) and founder and Chairperson of the International Conference on Software Process Improvement, (ww.icspi.com).