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CASE Spec Workspace 9.0
Solve problems in your own way
Take your
requirements and lifecycle management efficiency to the
next level
Increase client satisfaction. Keep your developers happy. Enable test
leads, systems and business analysts, and designers to collaborate
effortlessly. Let duplication of
effort be a thing of the past. Make
each software and systems development project an unparalleled success that’s
on time and under budget.
CASE
Spec is an affordable, powerful and easy-to-use lifecycle tool
for enterprise specification,
requirements tracking and documentation. Our robust,
integrated configuration
management simplifies the development process—and will have everyone on your
team admiring your project
management skills.
Track and
report. With CASE Spec, create and manage use cases, share files
with dispersed teams, and trace requirements throughout the design and test
processes. Easily generate support documents and custom reports.
Versatility.
This product may be used for any software, systems or product development
project. And, it works
in conjunction with any lifecycle process, such as Agile, Spiral, Incremental,
Waterfall, etc.
Database management.
CASE Spec includes an embedded enterprise database for storing an unlimited number of projects and TBs of data.
Requiring zero administration and configuration, DB Manager backs up and
restores data. It also enables you to purge deleted projects, reset passwords
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Workspace
CASE Spec’s
configurable, tabbed workspace enables access / navigation to all modules
(data, models, files, traceability, reports, notifications and admin) from a
single location.
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 Data
CASE Spec provides the ability to model system
artifacts for definition and tracking. These artifacts are assigned to types.
Typical types / artifacts:
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Requirements
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Use cases and steps
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Features
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Test cases and steps
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Defects
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Entities and attributes
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Change requests and more
Types
are arranged in a hierarchy (tree), which provides context and structure to
the artifacts. Views are used to assign user-defined attributes to each type,
providing a complete framework for system artifacts.
Edit data:
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Diagrams
CASE Spec provides an
integrated diagramming tool for creating, baselining and linking diagrams to
specifications. It maintains versions of diagrams for easy referral.
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Diagram editing behavior similar to standard diagramming
applications
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Images (BMP, WMF, EMF, PNG, TIFF, GIF and JPG ) supported in blocks
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Diagram printing and exporting
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Block gradient, shadow and bitmap
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Full block customization: pen, brush, color, selection color,
minimum width and height
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Ready to use blocks: flow charts, data flow diagrams, and UML
diagrams (including use cases, sequence, object, class, component,
activity diagrams and more)
Embedded Objects
Supplement specifications with embedded,
rich-text objects (images, tables and outlines).
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 Files
Experience
a sophisticated file repository for collaboration, configuration management,
and linking to requirements and specifications. The ability to attach objects
to requirements provides rich, efficient lifecycle tracking for systems and
software development.
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File
check in
/
check out
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Drag
and drop check-in
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Automatic
version
control
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Locking
/ unlocking files
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Baselining
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Auto-notify users when a
file is checked in
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Tracking
CASE Spec simplifies your project
management needs and requirements tracking throughout the design and test
processes, with powerful tracking features:
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Establish
parent-child relationships
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Create
peer-to-peer relations
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Define
link types
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Add
attributes for links
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Track
history of links
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Establish
links through graphical and tabular views
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Maintain
forward and backward traceability with bi-directional links
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 Traceability
To develop a
quality product or system, you must be able to analyze and track fundamental
and complex relationships amongst all project artifacts.
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CASE Spec’s
traceability (impact analysis, gap analysis) is useful in many ways, to:
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Find
whether a test case is covered for every testable requirement or system
component
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Maintain
consistency between higher-level specifications, architecture and lower-level
specifications
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Trace
the impact of proposed changes to the system and base-lined items
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Estimate
the impact of change
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Reduce
duplication of effort
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Use
Boolean logic to identify complex relationships between requirements and
other system components
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 Change Management
CASE
Spec simplifies the development process by providing integrated configuration
management for project artifacts. Our tool enables you to baseline and lock
project artifacts (requirements, documents, models, etc.) for integrity.
These
controlled groupings of system components are packaged together for project
management purposes, including incremental development. CASE Spec’s report
module allows for simple viewing and comparing of project baselines and
reports generation.
CASE Spec also
automatically logs all changes to artifacts, which, in turn, produces
detailed history reports. Moreover, any previous version may be restored.
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 Importing & Exporting
CASE Spec
provides powerful import
/ export features for interfacing
with your external systems, editing requirements and performing reconciliations offline.
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Import data records from existing
documents
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Perform offline editing of data records in a spreadsheet or word processor
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Reconcile the offline changes with your database
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Automate the import process
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Interface with
other tools (MS Project, Test Director, etc.) and databases
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 Collaboration
CASE
Spec is an enterprise system that allows
collaboration between local and globally dispersed teams. This easy-to-install
and configure tool is scalable, supporting
multiple
projects and users.
CASE Spec
provides a collaborative environment where
users, project
managers and stakeholders may share a common
pool of project information, and work
together toward the
common
goal of effective systems
or software development:
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Work concurrently on specifications without
update conflicts
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Record-level locking allows maximum concurrency
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Easily lock project artifacts for configuration
management
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Control access through user groups with varied
assigned privileges
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Leverage CASE Spec’s built-in workflow module for
assigning and tracking requirements’ status
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Assign tasks
to
team members
and instantly
communicate
with auto-email or
built-in system
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Add comments to
assigned tasks
or notifications
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Templates
Templates
are snapshots of existing projects that include attributes, pick list values,
hierarchies, views, user groups, and more. Users may import structures from
templates for new projects. This feature significantly reduces setup time,
provides consistency and supports standards for system development.
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 Reports
& Documents
Tabular Reports
Generating fully formatted
documents and reports is effortless with CASE Spec. It’s easy to create
reports with filtering, sorting and drag-and-drop grouping.
In addition, users may create
customizable summary reports, with different styles and page settings (which
are reusable). Output can be generated using varied layouts, including: grid,
card or tree.
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Baseline & Log Reports
CASE Spec enables users to develop different baseline comparison
reports and log reports.
Pre-formatted Documents
CASE Spec enables users to generate documents with a title page,
table of contents, listing of attributes, embedded objects, graphics and
custom fonts. These formal documents provide information similar to standard
Software Requirement Specifications (SRS).
Custom
Reports
The
user-friendly reporting tool simplifies custom reports-creation (layouts,
cover pages, footers, headers).
Graphs
Creating
various professional-looking graphs for project management is easy with CASE
Spec. The graphs display a number of items for different attribute values
(e.g., priorities, statuses, releases, etc.).
Traceability Reports
CASE Spec
allows generating traceability reports that include gap analysis,
traceability analysis and impact analysis reports. The reports can be
printed and exported in PDF, XML, XLS and HTML formats.
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Hassle-free Deployment
While CASE Spec is a high performance,
multi-threaded and multi-tier application, it is easy to deploy:
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Zero administration
and configuration
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Scalable from 1 to
1000s of concurrent users and unlimited projects
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No additional cost
for database licenses
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Includes an
embedded enterprise database
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Built-in encryption
for secure data transfer
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Licensing
CASE
Spec is easy to setup and use by local and globally dispersed teams. No
additional software is required for license management. Licenses are
transferable from one computer to another.
Floating Licenses
Floating
licenses are controlled by a number of concurrent users, and you may install
CASE Spec on any number of computers. In this licensing model, only the
server is locked to a computer. (An unlock code for each client is not
required.)
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Training & Support
CASE Spec comes with one full year of free technical support
and upgrades. After the first year, our bundled upgrades and support
package is available for an annual fee of 20% [of the original total purchase
price of the tool]. You may also purchase upgrades separately after the
initial year.
We
provide onsite and / or Web-based, live training tailored to your schedule, specific requirements
and needs. Our training program enables your users to:
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Create and track
artifacts throughout the lifecycle of a project
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Master commands,
functions and shortcuts within CASE Spec
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Customize CASE Spec
for your projects
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Free Trial Version
To
download a trial version, click here.
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Minimum
System Requirements
Operating Systems
Win NT / 2000 / XP / Vista
or Win 2003/2008 server
Hardware
1 GB hard drive, Pentium 1
GHZ class processor
Server
.Net 2.0 framework
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