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From: mmuegel@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
Subject: Traceability Matrix Tools
Message-ID: <1991Mar25.212737.202@fwhnm02.fwrdc.rtsg.mot.com>
Reply-To: mmuegel@mot.com (Michael S. Muegel)
Organization: Cellular Infrastructure Group, Motorola, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 1991 21:27:37 GMT

Before I re-invent the wheel I was wondering if anyone knows of any tools
out there that somewhat fit this description:

> We are seeing a need for developing a tool that can search thru
> documents for all phases of the development process and apply
> the specific info that the tool finds to a traceability 
> matrix.  
> 
> Example: All of the requirements for a project have a unique 
> number assigned to them.  We would like to have a tool that
> would then go thru all supporting documents and search for 
> this unique number and write these document names, sub-sections,
> or even test cases to a document (traceability)  that would 
> show all the supporting info associated with a given requirement.

I already have ideas on how to implement this. We use Interleaf for 
documentation and a company called Database Publishing Software puts out a
product called SmartLeaf which allows you to, very specifically, extract
information from Interleaf document(s) and place in a RDBM system. This
combined with an SQL interface and other parsing would seem the right
approach.

My question is, has anyone done something similar to this? Thanks,
-Mike

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