Mikko Raatikainen
Alexander Felfernig
Ralph Samer
ABSTRACT
The requirements for a system have many dependencies that can be expressed in the individual requirements managed in an issue tracker or a requirements management system. However, managing the entire body of requirements taking into account all complex dependencies is not well supported. We describe how a feature model based configurator can be used as a tool to help manage requirements data. Data transfer and constructing the needed requirements model can be carried out automatically by relying on a model generator. We implemented a prototype tool for requirements and release management that utilizes a knowledge-based configurator.
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- Using a feature model configurator for release planning
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