Use Cases

The following use cases describe common tasks and workflows when using OpenFastTrace.

Writing a Specification: Learn how to author requirement specifications using Markdown and OFT-readable specification items.
Excluding Parts of a Specification Document for OFT Parsing: Use oft:on|off tokens to exclude specific sections or whole documents from being scanned by OFT.
Delegating Requirement Coverage: Use shorthand notation to forward the responsibility of covering a specification item to different artifact types.
Distributing the Detailing Work: Use tags to split the architecture and distribute work across different teams.
Filtering by Status: Create reports that only include specification items matching specific maturity levels (e.g., approved).
Tracing the Whole Chain: Assess the coverage state of your entire product by tracing the full chain of artifacts.
Tracing the Whole Chain in the Same File System: Perform a full trace in small projects where all artifacts are located under a common root directory.
HTML Tracing Reports: Generate visually appealing HTML reports for management or quality assessments.
Understanding and Fixing Broken Requirement Branches: Identify and resolve issues in the traceability graph to ensure all requirements are properly linked.