Requirement Editor

Requirement

Property	Description
Name	Requirement name.
Created By	Name of the person who created the first revision of the requirement in the view. This value is a read-only calculated value.
Created On	Date and time the first revision of the requirement was created. This value is a read-only calculated value.
Attachments	Number of files attached to the requirement. This value is a read-only calculated value.
Modified By	Name of the last person who modified the requirement. This value is a read-only calculated value.
Modified On	Date and time the requirement was last modified. This value is a read-only calculated value.
Type	Category of the requirement.
Owner	Name of person ultimately responsible for the fulfillment of the requirement.
Priority	The relative importance of the requirement can remain Unassigned (the default), or ranked as Essential, Useful, or Desirable.
Status	Current stage of the requirement. This property indicates the progress from Submitted to Rejected or Complete. Note: The status `ReadyForCCP` means the requirement is ready for review by the Change Control Board.
External Reference	External source or reference for this requirement. This usually is the name of an external customer who asked for the requirement. If you are publishing requirements from CaliberRM to StarTeam, this property displays its identification for this requirement.
Description	Provides a description of the requirement, usually revised over time to eliminate ambiguities.

Responsibility

To assign requirements to available resources, select one or more available users and click Add selected users to add them to the Responsible list. Click Remove selected users to remove selected users from the list.

Ambiguity Review

Property	Description
Number of ambiguities found	Number of ambiguities that reviewers have found in the initial description of the requirement.
Revised description	Provides a new, revised description because of ambiguities found in the original description or because of other reasons.
Comments	Provides information about the ambiguities in the original requirement and why the description has been revised.

Estimate

Property	Description
Expected effort	Expected case estimate of how long it will take to implement the requirement. If you are publishing requirements from CaliberRM to StarTeam, these text boxes are already filled with data based on a specific unit, such as hours or days. Otherwise, the units are arbitrary, but must be the same for the Low Effort and the High Effort text boxes, and must be used consistently for all requirements.
High effort	Worst-case estimate of how long it will take to implement the requirement. If you are publishing requirements from CaliberRM to StarTeam, these text boxes are already filled with data based on a specific unit, such as hours or days. Otherwise, the units are arbitrary, but must be the same for the Low Effort and the Expected Effort text boxes, and must be used consistently for all requirements.
Low effort	Best case estimate of how long it will take to implement the requirement. If you are importing requirements from CaliberRM, these text boxes are already filled with data based on a specific unit, such as hours or days. Otherwise, the units are arbitrary, but must be the same for the Expected Effort and the High Effort text boxes, and must be used consistently for all requirements.
Notes	Field used to provide additional information about the estimated effort to implement the requirement.

Custom

The Custom tab lists any custom property names and values.

Attachments

Use the Attachments tab to manage files attached to an item in the following ways:

Click Add... to attach a local file to the item.
Select an attachment and click Remove to remove the attached file.
Select an attachment and click Save to save the attached file to your local or network drive.

Comment

Use the Comment field to provide additional information about the item.