TDRRC - Documentation and Recovery of Requirements in Source Code

Keeping requirements documents up to date and recovering software requirements are challenges faced by developers in their daily work during the development maintenance and evolution of systems. Although there are techniques for requirements management these techniques are often not applied requirements are not updated and the only reliable source of information about software becomes its source code. This thesis presents a technique for documenting and retrieving requirements in source code using annotations. By representing requirements in the source code it is expected that problems related to updating requirements will be reduced as the developer responsible for the program becomes responsible for documenting and updating the requirements in the source code that he writes and maintains. Ways to apply the technique in requirements reengineering agile methods and requirements management are also presented along with a case study.