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Requirements management is a critical and essential phase for the delivery of the product to be successful. The requirements can be called as user needs or desired feature for a product. So, only with well defined requirements, the products can achieve success. To collect well defined requirements and to manage the specified requirements we make use of requirements management tools. The objective of this paper is to present the comparative study on different requirements tools that are available and to determine the most essential tool.

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INTRODUCTION:

In the field of software engineering, requirements are the needs of the user that must be correctly managed and specified. In this paper we have presented the different requirements tools that can be used and well managed as per the requirements specified. A comparative study has been made to determine the top management tool that fulfills user needs.

LITERATURE SURVEY:

"Automating Requirements Management" compared the tools like DOORS, RTM workshop, caliber-RM, and Requisitepro and the features they have in common are they parse a source document to load requirements into database, define different attributes for different types of requirements, define traceability relationships, usability options and includes threaded discussions and tool learning aids[1].

According to author Muhammad Said, "An Evaluation of Requirements Management and Traceability Tools" evaluated eleven requirements management and requirements traceability tools. The analysis summarize that requirements tools are used more instead of traceability tools. And they concluded that DOORS tool has most specifications features among the tools compared[2].Another one said that "Selecting Appropriate Requirements Management Tool for Developing Secure Enterprises Software", compared cradle, caliber-RM, analyst pro, CORE analyzed that caliber RM tool comes out in front with tying between cradle and analyst pro[3].

Matthias Heindl, Franz Reinisch, Stefan Biffl, Alex Egyed," Value-Based Selection of Requirements Engineering Tool Support", reported on a value-based requirements tool selection approach developed at PSE that helps to find the optimal tool support and evaluated how existing requirement tools meet the needs for requirements tool support[8].Aurora Vizcaino, in their article "Requirements engineering tools: Capabilities, survey and assessment", states that some enhancements to be made in order to make tool support some features that are located in requirements modeling, management and some other capabilities. They also analyzed that modeling score lower...

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