PRO-ART: PROcess based Approach to Requirements Traceability*

Requirements Traceability is crucial for the success of system development activities. What does it take to capture, maintain and use requirements information? Based on a three dimensional framework and a tool interoperability approach we present a requirements engineering environment (PRO-ART) which enables the content oriented capture of requirements information. The demonstration shows how • traceability can be used during the requirements engineering process; • requirements information is captured during process execution by our tool environment; e.g., the interrelation of informal specifications and semi-formal notations like SA and ER diagrams; • changes can be propagated in the current specification using the trace information. * This work was supported by ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6353 (NATURE) which is concerned with Novel Approaches to Theories Underlying Requirements Engineering and by the state Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany.