Eclipse XML based SRS / News: Recent posts

The SRS Plugin can be installed using
Software Updates-->Find and Install...

Selecting the "Search for New Features to Install" radio button.

New Remote Site:
Name = EclipseSRS
URL = http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net/updatesite

Work on this project is resuming after a long hiatus.
Expect to have some sort of dynamic linking through bookmarks to the components from any SRS object that references them. This should make it easier to track what code does what ... especially useful when bringing in new developers.

A sample Requirements Management Plan based on the EclipseSRS 1.1.0 schema is now available.

There will be a link added to the homepage when v1.1.0 is released, for now you can go to -
http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net/reqmgmtpln/SampleReqtsMngmntPln.htm

This is a converted Word document so, for best results if you are using Windows, try the File-->Edit With Microsoft Word For Windows menu item and select the View --> Print menu item from within Word.... read more

Eclipse Cheat Sheets and Intro Pages are a great way to guide users through your applications Use Cases. The next release of the Eclipse SRS plugin will include Cheat Sheets and we are working diligently to make them one of the outputs the SRS plugin can produce, so stay tuned!

Current Version is EclipseSRS Feature Set 1.0.0 and contains the SRS Plugin, Resource Bundle and Help Plugin. The help plugin is rudimentary and was generated by the EclipseSRS Plugin.

http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net/updatesite/

Version 1.0.0 is available for download as of August 3.

The SRS plugin is meant to provide an intuitive means to edit an XML based Software Requirements Specification.

The Eclipse Modeling Framework was used to generate an editor based upon an xml schema. The schema derives from a growing consensus that requirements can effectivly be identified through Use Cases. The EclipseSRS Editor is Use Case centric.

Code mods are complete for release 1.0! Plugin needs to be rebuilt and tested prior to release.

net.sourceforge.eclipsesrs.example contains a usecase diagram created with the UMLet plugin (v. Beta3) which is open source and simple to use.
http://qse.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/~auer/umlet/index.html

srs.eclipsesrs has been updated to include a reference to the srs.usecase.png file in the generated printable html.

The sample SRS, describing the SRS plugin itself, has been added to CVS under net.sourceforge.eclipsesrs.example

Version 0.9.8 adds enhanced section data. Allowing for arbitrary mixing of image and text data in sections. Rudimentary index, printable html, and help plugin generation are functional. XSLT stylesheets can be modified to suit your needs.

All three segments of the plugin are available in CVS!

The plugin(s) are also available with source in the file release tab.

Access schema from the Home Page http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net

or go directly to:

http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net/srs_xsd/srs.xsd.html

http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net/srs_xsd/srs.xsd.png
http://eclipsesrs.sourceforge.net/srs_xsd/srs.xsd

In an effort to take advantage of EMF 2.0 features, the SRS schema is being reworked using the Library.xsd included in the EMF 2.0 Help Docs as starting point ... Library --> Project, Book --> UseCase, Author --> Actor. Other elements will be modified to more closely align with DocBook standards, dl --> section, p-->para and dd will be ommitted.

Stylesheets will be updated prior to release of v1.0.0 to support the new schema.

Report generation for index and printable pages added. Rudimentary support for Eclipse Help plugin generation added.

The first EclipseSRS Beta for Eclipse 3.0 is now available. EMF 2.0 was used to generate a basic editor. Release of 1.0.0 is anticipated in the next week or two. It will include help plugin generation based on your SRS in addition to basic SRS documentation generation; output will be in an html format suitable for importing into MS Word. The HTML will be formatted to facilitate the automatic generation of outlines and indexes.

The dtd from xmlbasedsrs@tigris.org was modified to support components, component refs, and usecase refs. Usecase scenarios and links to automated test scripts are planned for a future release.

There is a cool way to generate an Eclipse help plugin from the SRS plugin! Taking the original xmlbasedsrs docbook file (guide.xml) and using the stylesheet described in Jirka Kosek's article "DocBook for Eclipse: Reusing DocBook's Stylesheets" (http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/docbook-eclipse.html) I was able to generate a sample help plugin with very little effort! I used XML Spy in conjunction with Instant Saxon for a quick and dirty test and should have the functionality incorporated into the SRS plugin shortly.