Crow

CROW

CROW is a requirements management and control tool with a special focus on maintaining the bilateral traceability between artifacts and tracing the impact of software change requests. It can store and manage CRS, TRS, Architecture, Design, Implementation References and Tests.

The purpose of CROW is to support the full software development lifecycle focusing on Automotive SPICE Process Assessment Model (ASPICE PAM). ASPICE PAM is analogue to CMMI model in the automotive industry.

Features

Add and edit software development lifecycle (SDLC) elements. File attachments are also supported
Maintain product and requirement baselines (with labels)
Establish and maintain bilateral traceability across SDLC elements
Export of traceability matrices to Excel via Apache POI
Export of elements to external formats
Automatically trace to/from Perforce changelists
Desktop GUI client (Java/Swing)

Screenshots

Here are some screenshots of Crow demonstrating its key features:

Main window	Setting the traces between elements
Traceability matrix wizard	Traceability report
Artifact editing dialog	Working with Perforce (adding changelists)

License and Distribution

CROW is an open-source software and is distributed under LGPL license. The source code and the binary distributions are available on Sourceforge project page.