Ask HN: How do you keep track of software requirements and test them?

• doorstop

  2 453 9.4 Python

  Requirements management using version control.

  

Zooming into "requirements management" (and out of "developing test cases") there's a couple of Open Source projects that address specifically this important branch of software development. I like both approaches and I think they might be used in different situations. By the way, the creators of these two projects are having useful conversations on aspects of their solutions so you might want to try both and see what's leading from your point of view.

* https://github.com/doorstop-dev/doorstop

• strictdoc

  1 138 9.8 Python

  Software for technical documentation and requirements management.

  

* https://github.com/strictdoc-project/strictdoc

Of course requirements can be linked to test cases and test execution reports, based on a defined and described process.

How to build test cases is another story.

• WorkOS

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• rdm

  2 106 0.0 Python

  Our regulatory documentation manager. Streamlines 62304, 14971, and 510(k) documentation for software projects. (by innolitics)

  

Been working as a consultant and engineer on FDA regulated software for about 8 years now. I have seen strategies from startups to huge companies.

I have seen requirements captured in markdown files, spreadsheets, ticket management systems like Redmine, Pivotal, Jira, GitLab, Azure Devops, GitHub Issues, and home grown systems.

If I had to start a new medical device from scratch today, I would use Notion + https://github.com/innolitics/rdm to capture user needs, requirements, risks, and test cases. Let me know if there is interest and I can make some Notion templates public. I think the ability to easily edit relations without having to use IDs is nice. And the API makes it possible to dump it all to yaml, version control and generate documentation for e-signature when you need it. Add on top of that an easy place to author documentation, non-software engineer interoperability, discoverable SOPs, granular permissions, and I think you have a winning combination.

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