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An automated requirements modeling tool:

1. •Describe the scope of your application with a Problem Statement.
   

2. •Understand the environment of your application with a graphical Application Context.
   

3. •Detail the needs and contributions of stakeholders via Stakeholder Profiles.
   

4. •Model the structure of the required behaviors with hierarchical Use Case Diagrams.
   

5. •Describe each Use Case in detail, including variants and exceptions.
   

6. •Stakeholders, participants, subsystems and objects are highlighted in use case, variant and exception workflows.
   

7. •Differences between the primary use case workflow and exception workflows are highlighted.
   

8. •Detail the roles and responsibilities of participants with Responsibility-Collaboration cards.
   

9. •Navigate the model via an interactive Mindmap interface.
   

10. •Create multiple levels of abstractions for Business, Architectural (System), and Technical (Subsystem and Object) audiences.
    

11. •Show the relationships between participants in your model with Relationship Diagrams.

Technical Features

1. • Simple, efficient user interface
   

2. • Context-sensitive popup menus
   

3. • Diagram notation based on industry-standard Unified Modeling Language (UML)
   

4. • Modeling process based on the SEEM Methodology
   

5. • Use Cases based on Alistair Cockburn’s book: “Writing Effective Use Cases”
   

6. • Automated traceability between artifacts
   

7. • Automated updated of all artifacts for entity name changes
   

8. • Support for full Internationalization
   

9. • Integrated configuration management
   

10. • Multi-user configuration is based on industry-standard MySQL database
    

11. •Single-user configuration is based on the open-source SQLite.

The alpha release of Requitopia (V0.8A) is now available!

This is a pre-release version, and is provided free of charge for evaluation purposes.

Please do not use this for anything important as the application has not been thoroughly tested!

(Download links are at the bottom of the page)