T-Reqs: Tool Support for Managing Requirements in Large-Scale Agile System Development

TL;DR

T-Reqs is a requirements management tool built on git, designed to support large-scale agile development by enabling teams to manage, update, and share requirements efficiently using version control.

Contribution

The paper introduces T-Reqs, a novel text-based requirements management approach integrated with git, addressing specific challenges in large-scale agile system development.

Findings

T-Reqs effectively supports requirements management in large-scale agile projects.

Teams can propose and track requirement updates efficiently.

The approach aligns with known challenges and needs in requirements engineering for agile systems.

Abstract

T-Reqs is a text-based requirements management solution based on the git version control system. It combines useful conventions, templates and helper scripts with powerful existing solutions from the git ecosystem and provides a working solution to address some known requirements engineering challenges in large-scale agile system development. Specifically, it allows agile cross-functional teams to be aware of requirements at system level and enables them to efficiently propose updates to those requirements. Based on our experience with T-Reqs, we i) relate known requirements challenges of large-scale agile system development to tool support; ii) list key requirements for tooling in such a context; and iii) propose concrete solutions for challenges.