Abstract:
Requirements Management (RM), being communication and collaboration intensive
activity, becomes hard to manage in Global software development (GSD) where teams
are confronted with global barriers such as distance, culture etc. Without Tool support it
is not possible to manage requirements in distributed environment and there are some
commercial tools available that support RM in GSD. In this research most widely used
tools, such as DOORS XT, RequisitePro, and CaliberRM etc. that support RM in GSD
are evaluated by collecting the information about the tools from different White papers
and data sheets. Important limitations of these tools such as inability to support effective
communication process, absence of coordination facilities, etc. are explored in this study.
Therefore we propose new tool that supports the process of RM in GSD and is called
Global Requirement Management Tool (GRMT) to overcome the limitations of the
existing commercial tools. A comprehensive specification of GRMT based on IEEE
standard is a part of this thesis. At the end we have described the components of GRMT
and its architecture as well.
