Can there be anything more important for a Software Factory than to understand the requirements that the product to be developed must fulfill?

Several studies demonstrate that the main cause of software project failure (71% of cases) is deficient Requirements Definition and Management. More than 40% of Software Factories have admitted having requirements management problems and more than half admit that they are incapable of correctly specifying and understanding their clients’ needs or suffer so-called scope creep (impossibility to clearly define the scope of a project).

At Visure we want Software Factories to benefit from this customized solution and, to this end, offer you maximum flexibility in economic and licensing terms, in order to adapt to the needs and possibilities of each factory. Scenarios such as project-based license lease, pay-per-use, combining permanent and temporary licenses, etc. are possible with IRQA for Software Factories. Our objective is for price not to be a problem if IRQA for Software Factories is the solution that your factory needs.

IRQA for Software Factories

IRQA for Software Factories solves the following problems:

• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows you to visually automate corporate Requirements Engineering processes, in order to guarantee that these are used correctly in all projects.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows Software Factories to use a single Requirements Engineering tool, maintaining the requirements synchronized with the specific tools of each of your clients.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows requirements to reside in a synchronized manner in the client’s repository (which uses its own requirements tool), and in the software factory’s requirements repository (IRQA).
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows Software Factories to become integrated with their development environment using of any of the multiple integrations available in IRQA or the Integration Framework, which allows you to easily create new integrations with development tools that are not specifically supported.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows you standardize reports, metrics and dashboards in all projects, in order to work homogeneously with these and be able to compare metrics between projects, regardless of the end client’s requirements.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows you to reuse requirements stemming from validation procedures and requirements specification services between projects, using IRQA’s advanced reusable components functionality.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows your clients to continue working with their preferred Office tool, but you will not lose control of your Requirements Engineering processes, as you can import and export requirements from Word and Excel by simply clicking a button, indicating the requirements which have been modified or added.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows your clients to modify or create new requirements in Outlook.
• With IRQA for Software Factories, you can offer your clients the possibility of connecting to their own repository in the factory using their preferred browser, without having to open a port in the firewalls, via a secure http(s) connection.
• With IRQA for Software Factories, development teams can create reusable components that contain requirements, tests (procedures for validating a set of requirements) or services (text models or diagrams specifying the purpose of a set of requirements). These components are subsequently published so that new or existing projects can totally or partially reuse them.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows you to know what components and which version thereof are being reused in what projects, in order to better estimate the impact of a change in a component.
• The IRQA for Software Factories solution allows you to specify the tracing that can be carried out and the profiles that can carry out said tracing. Its powerful traceability consists of maintaining the services and tests synchronized in their repository, providing a powerful traceability analysis capability unique in the market.