Requality 0.20 released
Version 0.20 of Requality has been released with some new important additions mostly aimed to improve support for development of requirement catalogue from scratch.
The new features include:- New customizable templates for Requirements, Text Nodes and other elements.
- Templates can be defined from scratch or extracted from existing element.
- Context menu of Requality Explorer now allows to create element from a template or from scratch.
- Active template can be chosen to be used as a default for all new elements of specific type.
- New kind of elements in requirements tree TEXT NODE added. It can be used to represent informative text incorporated into requirements tree. Text nodes can be converted to a requirement and vice-versa. There are two types of text nodes supported: ordinal text and headers.
- Improvements in requirement attributes:
- Support for user-defined enumeration types. Enumeration types can be created from scratch or can be extracted automatically from a set of values used by an attribute with the given name across a project.
- Scope is supported for non-generated attributes.
- Improvements in requirement editors:
- Brand-new editor — Module Editor optimized for development of requirements from scratch. It can be used to create and to edit requirements and text nodes.
- New dialog to edit attributes that is activated on creation of a new element or by explicit user request.
- Unification of hot-keys.
- Pop-up menu for actions on active element (Ctrl+D) and short hot keys for listed actions.
- New report template — Trace that provides a simple report to overview dependencies between requirements.
- Improvements in customizability:
- New sorting of elements of requirements tree that follows order explicitly defined by user.
- User-Visible Id construction made customizable by means of attribute "ignoreName" that forces to ignore name of an element that has such attributes set.
- New option in project settings that defines a default approach for identification of requirements: «By User-visible name» or «By Full name».
- Default distribution of Requality is switched to bundles that includes Eclipse and all required plugins installed.
- Minor improvements in dialogs:
- New warnings when an element referenced by someone is be deleted.
- Some dialogs now ask for confirmation when there are changes and cancel is requested.
A complete list of changes can be found in changelog.
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