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.
• Partial Tracing by Responsibility: Filter by artifact types to verify requirement coverage layer by layer according to team roles and responsibilities.
• 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.