The help follows the requirements engineering process: set up a project, specify requirements, link them, review and approve them, manage states and exchange data. All examples come from the sample project battery management system.
What the Engineering Toolbox Requirements Manager does: specify requirements in modules, link them with typed links, review and approve them, record them in baselines and exchange them via ReqIF.
From the customer specification to an approved, verifiable state. The six steps of requirements engineering and the ETRM features that support each step.
The example project of this help. Requirements specification, safety goals, system specification, test cases and glossary of a battery management system for an electric vehicle, with links, baselines, review and change request.
Development History of the Engineering Toolbox Requirements Manager. Learn all about new features, updates, and improvements here.
Create projects empty with a profile, from a ReqIF file, from a backup or as a demo project; copy, rename, archive and delete them.
How to adapt the data model of a project. Artifact types with required attributes, attributes with enumeration values and defaults, link types with allowed sources and targets.
Write and structure requirements like a document. Chapters and numbering, editing directly in the text, drag and drop, reuse in several modules and comparison with a baseline.
Everything about an artifact on one page. Text and attributes, wording hints, links, images, comments, use in modules, change requests, tags and the complete history with reset.
All artifacts of a project or module as a table. Choose columns, filter by attributes, links and wording hints, sort, save views, change many artifacts at once and export to Excel.
Free tags complement the configured attributes. How to set them, filter by them and apply them to many artifacts at once.
How ETRM detects vague terms, open points, missing units and unclear obligation, where the hints appear and how the glossary explains technical terms in all texts.
Connect requirements, safety goals and test cases with typed links, check and clear suspect links after changes, find gaps with matrix and coverage, and recognise the impact of a change.
Have requirements checked by colleagues, customers or quality assurance. Create a review, approve each artifact or reject it with a reason, close, rework and approve baselines with name and function.
Control changes to agreed requirements. Submit a request, assess the impact via links, accept or reject, implement and prove against the baseline.
Clarify questions directly at the artifact, involve colleagues with @Name and see under the bell where your input is needed.
Record binding states of a project or module immutably, approve them, print them as a document or output them to Word, and compare two states artifact by artifact.
The dashboard of a project. Size, coverage per link type, status distribution, suspect and orphaned artifacts, open reviews and change requests, change volatility and wording hints.
The start page shows what has happened in your projects over the last 14 days, where suspect links, open reviews or change requests are waiting, and which projects have been archived or deleted.
Import specifications via ReqIF and reconcile repeated deliveries, pass on states as ReqIF, Excel, CSV or Word, import Excel lists with a dry run and back up projects completely.
Access artifacts, links, modules, baselines and metrics from your own scripts, test automation or CI pipeline with access keys.
Separate stakeholder and system requirements, know the quality characteristics of good requirements according to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148 and build sentences with EARS. With examples from the sample project.
A constantly growing collection of stakeholder and system requirements for various specialized fields.
Learn how to overcome classic resistance to documentation and why text-based clarity is the key to project success.
Learn how to create an account in the Engineering Toolbox Requirements Manager or register using your Google account (SSO).
Changing your user name, password and deleting your account
Learn how groups connect people and projects and how to manage members.
Which roles exist in ETRM, what each role may do in projects and how you, as group admin, involve customers, suppliers and colleagues appropriately.
Information about membership models (Basic, Single, Team), the meaning of status logos, and managing your subscription via Stripe.
How to submit praise, criticism, feature requests, or bug reports