User Tasks

The work users can accomplish in Requirements Central can be divided into these main categories:


  • Requirements Management
  • Specifications Management
  • Requirements Capture
  • Traceability Reporting
  • Use and Test Cases

This task shows you how to:

Requirements Management

Product Managers, Customers, Marketing Representatives and Field Service Representatives enter and manage requirements. In this way, they provide their input into a product's definition. For details, see Managing Requirements.

Features and functions supported by the requirements management options include:


  • Creating and modifying requirements
  • Defining a structure of requirements (sub and derived requirements)
  • Copying requirements
  • Viewing features satisfied by requirements
  • Viewing revisions, version, traceability reports, and Where Used reports
  • Working with assignees

Specifications Management

Product Managers, Customers, Marketing Representatives and Field Service Representatives enter and manage specifications. Using the Structure View, they can edit and manage the components of a specification: Requirements, Comments, and Chapters. For details, see Managing Specifications and Structure & Content Editor.

Features and functions supported by the specifications management options include:


  • Creating and modifying requirement specifications
  • Adding, editing, and managing specification objects
  • Reserving objects
  • Viewing revisions and content reports

Requirements Capture

Product Managers, Customers, Marketing Representatives and Field Service Representatives can import requirement information from Microsoft Word documents or Excel spreadsheets. For details, see Requirement Capture From MS Word and Requirement Capture from MS Excel.

Features and functions supported by the Capture tools include:


  • Specifying data for import
  • Mapping data for import
  • Importing data
  • Verifying import

Traceability Reporting

Product Managers, Customers, Marketing Representatives and Field Service Representatives run traceability reports to ensure that requirements are properly accounted for and being satisfied. For details, see Traceability Reports.

Features and functions supported by traceability reporting include:


  • Running requirement to requirement reports
  • Running requirement to feature reports
  • Running requirement to test case reports
  • Running requirement to functions reports
  • Running requirement to logical reports

Use and Test Cases

Product Managers, Customers, Marketing Representatives and Field Service Representatives create and manage use cases and test cases. For details, see Use Cases and Test Cases.

Features and functions supported by use and test cases include:


  • Creating and managing use cases
  • Viewing and attaching test cases to requirements