A Platform to Capture, Trace, Analyze, and Manage Requirements

Why easeRequirements?

easeRequirements for Azure DevOps is a powerful yet user-friendly requirements management tool that enhances your ability to define and model relationships between requirements. It leverages the full capabilities of Azure DevOps, achieving an ideal balance between customizability and simplicity. easeRequirements offers multiple intuitive features and provides visualizations in various views that enhance usability and user experience.

Key Benefits

• Seamless integration with Azure DevOps: Manage requirements and other project artifacts in one place. Save time, reduce effort, and collaborate more effectively with your team.
• Hierarchical tree structure: Organize all items into a clear hierarchical tree. Understand requirement relationships, track progress, and identify potential risks more easily.
• Baseline requirements: Create baselines directly from the requirement tree and compare them with each other or with the current tree to track changes.
• Coverage view: Gain a comprehensive overview of requirement coverage. Built on Azure DevOps relations and fully configurable, this view helps identify missing requirements or tests and ensures complete coverage.
• Traceability: Achieve end-to-end traceability using Azure DevOps relationships. Easily track dependencies between work items and identify gaps.
• Agile practices: Designed to support Agile workflows, easeRequirements allows you to manage requirements alongside your sprints and tasks in the same tool.
• Export capabilities: Export requirements to Word and Excel for documentation, reporting, and further analysis. Create professional documents and leverage Office's powerful features for requirement analysis.

Key Features

Hierarchical Tree

Organize your requirements in a flexible hierarchical tree tailored to your project needs, unconstrained by Azure DevOps's native structure. Add, remove, and link requirements with ease.

Reading View

Visualize product requirements in a document-style layout by expanding and collapsing the hierarchy. Navigate the tree to view context details in a reading-friendly format.

Detail View

Dive deep into individual requirements. Select a requirement in the tree to view all its details in the work item.

Tree Table View

Manage requirements in a table format while maintaining their hierarchical structure. Customize columns to suit your analysis needs.

Baseline

Create baselines from the requirement tree or specific folders. Compare baselines against one another or the current tree to identify changes and maintain consistency. Export baselines to Word for documentation and reporting.

Coverage View

Perform comprehensive coverage analysis—from high-level requirements down to code changes—directly within Azure DevOps. Review all project requirements systematically to uncover coverage gaps at any hierarchy level. Save and share analysis views with your team.

Traceability Matrix

Visualize and manage relationships between requirements with the Traceability Matrix. Analyze dependencies and link requirements to other items directly from the matrix.

Requirements Reuse

Simplify your process with Requirements Reuse. Identify and reuse existing requirements across Azure DevOps projects to avoid duplication, ensure consistency, and save time.

Revisions

Track changes made to requirements in the Revisions section. View version history, compare different versions, and manage requirement evolution effectively.

Export to Word and Excel

Generate professional documentation and perform detailed analysis with comprehensive export capabilities.

Export to Word

Create professional requirement documents by exporting your requirement tree to Microsoft Word format. The export preserves the hierarchical structure and includes all requirement details, making it perfect for:

• Documentation: Generate formal requirement specifications for stakeholders
• Reviews: Create documents for requirement review meetings and sign-offs
• Compliance: Maintain documentation standards required by regulatory frameworks
• Archival: Store requirement snapshots for historical reference and audit trails

The Word export maintains formatting, includes work item fields, and preserves the tree hierarchy in a readable document structure.

Template Customization (preview)

Customize the Word export template to match your organization's branding and documentation standards. Modify styles, headers, footers, and other elements to create a consistent look and feel for all exported documents. This feature is currently in preview and will be enhanced in future releases.

Export to Excel

Export requirement data to Microsoft Excel for advanced analysis, reporting, and data manipulation. You can export:

• The entire requirement tree or specific folders via the Tree Table view
• Coverage view data for detailed coverage analysis
• Traceability matrix data for relationship analysis
• Baseline comparisons for change tracking