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IRQA extensions


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In this section you will find a number of applications and IRQA plugins developed by Visure or third parties which will help you benefit of the open-ended nature of IRQA.



IRQA Quality Analyzer – Requirements quality metrics

Category: Commercial
Type: Application
Language: /
 

Description:
The IRQA Quality Analyzer application helps users write system specifications through the Right-the-first-time premise. Requirements are systematically analyzed to guarantee a definable level of quality throughout the whole project, reducing time and resources avoiding rework.

 

Requirements names and descriptions are analyzed semantically to identify the level of quality of the requirement (high, medium, poor), according to NLP (Natural Language Processing), by measuring the following metrics:
 
  • Over specifications detection: including design terms, pseudo code etc, in the body of the requirement
  • Speculative sentences: i.e. usually, generally, typically…
  • Usage of conditional concepts: i.e. perhaps, probably…
  • Usage of conditional Verbs
  • Usage of imperative verbs
  • Too many negations in the text
  • Ambiguous terms: ‘enough’, ‘sufficient’, ‘sure’, ‘usable’…
  • Existence or absence of domain terms: (based on conceptual maps)
  • Existence or absence of domain verbs: (based on conceptual maps)
  • Multiple needs within a particular requirement
  • Not complete sentences: ‘later on’, ‘in the future’…
  • Requirement size
  • Text Legibility 
  • Number of dependencies: between every requirement and other Project actives
  • Volatility: Number of versions generated after the acknowledge of a requirement
  • One unique verb by requirement: acknowledging a single need within a requirement
  • Reduction of acronyms and technical terms
  • Over usage of hierarchical levels
These individual indicators are completed by two other metrics aplicable to the complete specification:
  • Overlapping: Requirement descriptions are semantically compared      against other requirements in the specification in order to find the level of similarity between them, in order to find duplicated or contradictory elements.
  • Metric incompatibility: The use of metrics is analyzed in order to find mismatching use of units (kilometers, miles, meters, etc.).
 
The IRQA Quality Analyzer allows to measure the quality of a particular requirement or a group of them. This will also allow to early detect low quality requirements, indicating ways and tips for re-writing them. Therefore, the cost of rework will be dramatically reduced. Quality assurance is easy with Requirements Quality Analyzer.
 
Furthermore, quality management information can be sampled at a project level, or at an engineer level, offering tips for process improvement.
 
Related links:

Website:

 

Distributor: The Reuse Company (Certified IRQA Partner)
www.reusecompany.com

 

  

Export to XMI 2.1.1

Category: Free Download
Type: IRQA Plugin
Language:
 

Description:
This plugin allows users with at least read only access rights to the information, to export the following elements and their relationships to XMI 2.1.1:

  1. Services and related service scenarios
  2. Use Case diagrams
  3. State diagrams
  4. Concepts
  5. Concept diagrams
  6. Sequence diagrams
  7. Actors

The generated XMI file is compatible with at least, the following design tools:


MagicDraw - http://www.magicdraw.com/
Visual Paradigm - http://www.visual-paradigm.com/product/vpuml/
 

Related links:
Download link
XMI Documentation
 

Distributor: Visure Solutions

 

  

UI Icons example

Category: Free Download, Open Source
Type: IRQA Plugin
Language:
 

Description:
This plugin provides the users with a couple of examples on how to use the icons and images in the columns in the tutorial example:

  1. A lock icon is displayed in a specific column representing the checked-in/checked-out status of the corresponding element.
  2. A progress bar is displayed in a specific column representing the progress of the elements:
  • For Requirements, the progress is identified according to the status.
  • For Customer Requests, the progress is calculated according the statuses of the associated requirements.

Disclaimer

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.

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Related links:
Download link 
 
Distributor: Visure Solutions

 

 

IRQA for Pharma Sector

Category: free
Type: Solutions
Language:
  

Description:
This solution package for the pharma industry contains the following material:
  1. IRQA Validation for the pharma sector: This document briefly describes how IRQA 4 was successfully validated against the IEC 62304 (Medical device software – Software life cycle processes)
  2. System validation with IRQA: The following documents describe how IRQA supports validation projects according to GAMP 5, which consist mainly of defining requirements, associated tests (IQ, OQ, PQ) and traceability between all these elements. The material provided consists of:
  • System Validation with IRQA.pdf. Document describing the GAMP validation process and the support provided in IRQA
  • System Validation with IRQA.ppt. Powerpoint explanation of this support.
  • Pharmaceutical Model.mdb. IRQA database with the project structure for this support.
  • Pharma IRQA project.pdf. Brief document with the explanation of the project.
 
Related links:
 
Distributor: Visure Solutions
 
 
 
 

 

 

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