Borland Caliber RM 2008

CaliberRM is a requirements management tool that ensures that applications meet end user needs. Using CaliberRM, analysts, developers, testers and other stakeholders accurately capture and communicate the user’s requirements throughout the application lifecycle.

CaliberRM provides powerful requirements management facilities for collaboration, impact analysis and communication of requirements, enabling software teams to deliver on key project milestones with greater accuracy and predictability.

Industry analysis suggests that at least half of all defects arise from incomplete or incorrect requirements. More than 80% of the effort to fix defects is spent fixing requirement-related defects.  CaliberRM reduces this overhead by providing secure centralized storage of all requirements and related artifacts. It helps enforce high quality requirements through rigorous end-to-end traceability, ensuring that all requirements are delivered.

A complete and unambiguous understanding of what is required ensures that precious developer time is spent building the right thing.  CaliberRM helps build higher quality requirements and promotes collaboration between stakeholders to make sure that the right thing is built first time. When changes occur, robust change management capabilities ensure that changes are executed and managed throughout the lifecycle, and provide a complete audit trail for reporting and visibility.

Benefits:

• Secure centralized requirement platform:  CaliberRM provides a central, secure repository for all project requirements so that all stakeholders are working from one set of requirements.
• Adapability: CaliberRM adapts to fit business processes, bringing speed and agility to the software requirements management process.
• End-to-end traceability:  The open architecture of CaliberRM helps link user requirements to each step of the development lifecycle
• End-to-end impact analysis: Multiple methods for visualizing traceability provide immediate understanding of the impact of a specific change
• Role-based access: CaliberRM includes clients for a variety of user interfaces, such as Web browsers, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio and Windows
• Broad integrations: Integration with other lifecycle products makes it possible to weave software requirements management throughout the product development lifecycle without having to replace existing tool infrastructure
• Align quality efforts: Requirements can be integrated with leading test management tools including Silk . QA teams can manage requirement change and jump-start testing efforts faster and earlier in the lifecycle

CaliberRM WindowsClient and Web Client

Operating System Windows 2003 (SP2, 32-bit version only), Windows 2000 Professional (SP4), Windows XP Professional (SP2) workstation Windows Vista

Browsers Microsoft Internet Explorer6.0 or higher

Memory 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)

CaliberRM Server

Operating System Microsoft Windows 2003 Server (SP2)

Memory 256 MB RAM (1GB recommended)

Note: CaliberRM Web Server only needs to meet the recommended system requirements that Apache or IIS requires.

CaliberRM Components for Microsoft Visual Studio Team System

Please refer to the Readme file in the Documentation folder on the CaliberRM for Microsoft Visual Team System disk for both client and server system requirements