Overview
ISO/IEC TR 24766:2009 - "Information technology - Systems and software engineering - Guide for requirements engineering tool capabilities" is a Technical Report that describes desirable capabilities of requirements engineering (RE) tools. It supplements ISO/IEC 14102:2008 by focusing on tool support specific to RE activities defined in ISO/IEC 15288:2008 and ISO/IEC 12207:2008. The report helps organizations, tool purchasers, RE practitioners and vendors understand which tool features support the RE life‑cycle: elicitation, analysis, specification, verification & validation, and management.
Key topics
- Requirements elicitation and capture
- Support for storing interview/workshop artifacts, stakeholder information and rationale
- Flexible attributes, import/export of text and graphics, and search capabilities
- Requirements analysis
- Decomposition, conflict detection, feasibility assessment and prioritization support
- Requirements specification
- Consistent, reviewable documentation generation and traceable specification artifacts
- Verification and validation
- Capabilities to support examination, objective evidence collection and validation workflows
- Requirements management
- Versioning, change and configuration management, history tracking, author identification, time‑stamping and security rights control
- Traceability
- Forward/backward and bi‑directional tracing between requirements, system elements, documents, graphics and rationale
- Quality characteristics
- Guidance on requirements quality attributes and how tool features can help assess and improve requirement quality
Practical applications
ISO/IEC TR 24766:2009 is practical for:
- Organizations selecting or evaluating RE tools and CASE tools to support system and software projects
- Systems and software engineers defining tool requirements to comply with lifecycle standards (ISO/IEC 15288, ISO/IEC 12207)
- Project managers and requirements analysts who need to improve traceability, change control and requirements quality
- Tool vendors designing RE capabilities that align with international RE process expectations
Typical uses:
- Creating an objective checklist for tool procurement and vendor comparison
- Mapping RE process activities to tool features for process improvement
- Defining traceability and change‑management workflows to reduce defects and rework
Related standards
Keywords: ISO/IEC TR 24766:2009, requirements engineering, RE tools, requirements management, traceability, verification and validation, systems engineering, software engineering, CASE tools.