Managing requirements for multiple product variants is a problem due to the difficulty of sharing requirements between variants.

For example, you may find it difficult to specify that some requirements are common to all or some variants, or it may be difficult to say that some requirements are optional, alternative or mutually exclusive.

pure::variants offers a solution to these problems.

With pure::variants powerful feature modelling tools you can specify which requirements are common to which product variants, which requirements vary between product variants and how those requirements vary.

Once this is done pure::variants assists in the process of creating subsets of your requirements that correspond to individual product variants giving you full requirements traceability.

These specifications can then be used in your downstream development process or can be passed to your suppliers if you outsource development. Furthermore, since you have now explicitly captured what is common and what varies between products, it becomes possible to perform variant management in other parts of the software life cycle such as Configuration Management, Quality Assurance, Defect and Feature Tracking and Documentation etc.

Read how pure::variants works with DOORS® and Borland® CaliberRM™.

Download pure::variants now to see how this works in practice.

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