Impact Analysis
Describes the version management and the impact analysis when a requirement is modified.
Overview
When the input evolves, the coverage relationships evolves too and output must be updated in the following cases:
- if a requirement has been tagged as deleted, but still remains in the new version of the input,
- if requirement has been removed from input,
- If the version of a requirement has been updated,
- If a new requirement has been created.
The impact analysis consists in analyzing the all the coverage errors after such modifications : identify all elements of output that shall be updated. REQCHECKER™ includes an impact analysis presented in the Coverage Matrix.
Example
In this example :
- I1 has been updated in version 1. O1 must be updated : its content must be checked and maybe updated. Then its version must be updated to 1.
- I2 has been tagged as deleted. O2 must be updated : the coverage must be removed, and maybe the artifact removed if it becomes unused.
- O6 covers a requirement that has been removed. Either the coverage must be removed and maybe the artifact removed, either a requirement is missing.
If requirement in not fully covered, for example I3, its status is PARTIAL.
A coverage error occurs when :
- An requirement is never covered, for example I4. The error is named NO_COVERAGE_ERROR.
- An requirement is covered with a wrong version, for example I1. The error is named BAD_VERSION_ERROR.
- An requirement is covered since it has been deleted, for example I2. The error is named DELETED_COVERED_ERROR.
- An artifact covers a missing requirement, for example O6. The error is named NO_STATEMENT_ERROR.
- An requirement is defined twice, for example I4. The error is named SEVERAL_STAT_ERROR.
See Status List Page.
Automatic version
The software automatically creates a version for each requirement when no version is defined by the statement.
The automatic version is a 6 characters length hash number, for example 5CJYS3
.
The hash is computed from text and picture read from documents. The automatic version is not dependent from the following changes:
- case sensitive change,
- bullet modification,
- spaces.
The 6 characters length collision probabilities are:
- If you update the requirement once, then update the coverage, the probability to skip the modification is 0.0000004%.
- If you update the requirement 10 times, then update the coverage, the probability to get the same hash is 0.000016%.