Abstract: The task of generating a product line database may be automated by automatically analysing product line models which comprise a representation of the respective product line. The final product can be a physical product, e.g., a mobile telephone, a software product, etc. A representation of the produce line is generated from the product line models, which represents all products, features, platform, variants and their requirements of the respective product line. The database generator then uses and parses said representation to generate a database module, which can be incorporated into a specified database management system. When the database module is incorporated into a database management system it populates the database to contain all the relevant data of the product line model. This procedure automates the procedure of transforming product line related information from a model representation into a database module that can be directly imported into a specific database management system.

Abstract: The invention provides for methods, devices and systems for extracting requirements from narratives, in particular to methods of using stories told individually to extract technical requirements. One method for extracting requirements from a narrative comprises gathering a plurality of sub-stories from stakeholders, combining the plurality of sub-stories into a narrative, extracting information components from the narrative, mapping the extracted information components to story elements, mapping the identified story elements to requirement artifacts, and building at least requirements document from the mapped requirement artifacts.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product for generating a traceability matrix document regarding a system under development, provides for: providing input information regarding the system under development to a processing framework, processing the input information by the processing framework, and automatically creating a traceability matrix document regarding the system under development from the input information.

Abstract: A method, apparatus and computer program product involve generating system requirements specifications by receiving information regarding a system user interface, analyzing the information regarding the system user interface and extracting at least a relationship diagram and an interface flow diagram, converting the at least one relationship diagram and the at least interface flow diagram to at least one requirement trace and at least one functional requirement, and generating a system requirements specification document.

Abstract: In a system for generating project-related requirements for a project, a prototype which implements the project based on initial project requirements is run iteratively to derive updated project requirements for forming an updated prototype which implements the project based on the updated project requirements.