Writing Perfect Requirements with Real-Time help from RAT – Authoring Tools
As requirements represent one of the major causes of failures in systems engineering projects, it is of the utmost importance to embrace tools & techniques that help identify defects introduced in the earliest stages of requirements engineering.
During this course, you will learn how to write high-quality requirements with real-time help from RAT – Authoring Tools.

Upcoming course
Where: Online
When: Upcoming
Price: 400€ (excluding VAT)
Goals of the course
- Brief review of the common quality rules for individual requirements
- The RAT Connectors : Access requirements information from various requirements management tools
- Analysis of correctness report from RQA – Quality Studio
- Analysis of the authoring pattern groups available
- Writing requirements and analyze their quality while writing them
- RAT for collaborative tasks
- Best practices, checklists, rules at the author’s fingertips
- The concept of “Get it right the first time.”
- Focusing on requirements quality from the beginning reduces rework and subsequent costs
Description
The attendees will use the latest version of RAT – Authoring Tools so that they can write perfect requirements for a provided specification and receive real-time help from the tool.
Pre-Requirements / Who should attend
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- Authors of Requirements
- Project Managers
- Quality Managers
- Requirements Engineers in general
- Systems Engineers in general
Outline
- Requirements quality guidelines
- Connection screen and the connection to external requirements management tools
- RAT as a Plug-in
- The Authoring Screen in RAT (New, edit or delete requirements)
- Consistency and Completeness with RAT
- Checking requirements quality (correctness) with RAT
- Authoring with metrics and pattern groups / patterns (automatic term suggestion based on textual patterns)
- Checking for similar requirements (Overlapping)
- Collaboration mechanisms in RAT
- RAT on top of MBSE tools: Example RAT for Capella
Schedule
Duration: 1/2 day
Timetable: from 9am to 1pm (a coffee break)
Teacher
To be assigned