Over the past couple of weeks I\u2019ve spent a fair amount of time our visiting with customers and potential customers. Much of it was spent talking about the new stuff coming with TFS\/VS 11. One question that came up at probably 1\/3rd of customers I visited is how to do formal requirements with TFS. If you\u2019ve looked, you\u2019ve probably noticed TFS doesn\u2019t have a built in formal requirements solution. We did some work in VS\/TFS 11 and Test Professional 11 to support what we call \u201cAgile Requirements\u201d \u2013 important feedback loops with your stakeholders. But for some organizations, formal requirements are a must \u2013 Requirements documents, detailed traceability, requirements baselining, business process diagrams, etc, etc.\nSeveral years ago we found a company called eDevTECH with a product called InteGREAT. It looked a very capable and promising product so we approached them about partnering with us to turn it into a really terrific formal requirements management tool for TFS. InteGREAT continues to evolve and is now a terrific companion product for business analysts wanting to do formal requirements with their TFS based development\/test team. It is also complements well the Agile Requirements capabilities we added in TFS 11.\nI\u2019ll give you a very brief overview of the kinds of capabilities in InteGREAT. If you want to learn more check out their website links above or this joint webinar we did recently.<\/p>\n
InteGREAT connects directly to TFS the same way all the rest of our TFS client products do and stores its data in TFS.<\/p>\n
It has a broad set of requirements management capabilities\u2026<\/p>\n
It enables you to enter requirements in a simple tree grid form\u2026<\/p>\n
Or you can edit them in a semi structured document form\u2026<\/p>\n
You can also caption business process diagrams\u2026<\/p>\n
All of these requirements are stored in TFS, available for the development team to see through requirements work items. They are bi-directionally synchronized. And all of you development team work artifacts \u2013 user stories, tasks, test cases, etc can be linked to the TFS requirements.\nNot only does InteGREAT provide a seamless way to get requirements into TFS, it provided some great capabilities to help you build good requirements, like a library of predefined spec templates\u2026<\/p>\n
And questionnaires to help you make sure you are collecting all the relevant information\u2026<\/p>\n
And, of course, InteGREAT provides some good tools for establishing and visualizing dependencies, creating and reviewing baselines, etc\u2026.<\/p>\n
Further InteGREAT can help you by automatically generating test cases for your process models\u2026<\/p>\n
As you can see, there\u2019s a lot of great capability here. It\u2019s a great solution for teams looking for formal requirements. Check out the links at the top of this post to learn even more.\nThanks,\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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