ReqView Reviews

We use Reqview to record specifications of our medical robotic devices, both for hardware requirements and software requirements, in the scope of the EN 62304, ISO 14971 and ISO 13485 standard of the medical device industry. We use Reqview to analyze risks and trace the mitigations up to specifications and test cases. We record and trace test cases specifications in Reqview using multiple document...

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When features are missing, we can ask the Reqview team and they show their roadmap and progress done with features we are interested in. We can vote for upcoming features as well.

Thank you for great feedback with more information about your regulatory compliance usecase!

One of the main benefits of ReqView is that it focusses really on the content that I am interested in as a designer in a product development process. There is little administrative and procedural overhead (clutter) in the program as well as in the user interface. This enables to view/read information paragraphs-wise almost like in word processing software. Having all information linked is fantastic...

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The HTML programming needed for custom reports is something that you need to master, but from that point it offers many nice options. The recent ReqView update includes a wizard helping in this, which enables to create simple reports in under 30 seconds. So actually part of this pain is eased. Procedural rules, the delegation of formal rights etc. is not part of the software. Though we benefit from this, I can imagine that stricter application (quality systems) could ask for such functionality. However, we don't miss that at the moment.

Thank you for the terrific review! It is nice to hear that you find ReqView excelling at simplicity and local data storage, comparing to alternative solutions. We are glad you like the new wizards and are looking forward to working together on the next ideas to make ReqView even better.

The capability to make traceability between documents and projects in a very efficient way.

The most critical of the SW to me is the 'CNTRl+Z' command does not exist.

Hi Albert, Thank you for your feedback. We are considering the development of an advanced undo feature that will be compatible with the real-time collaboration solution.

ReqView is a powerful tool if you want to manage the requirements and the traceability. And also you can create the information you want show.

ReqView has a high flexibility but maybe is a inconvenient if you do not know programing in html.

Hi Carlos, Thank you for your excellent review. We are happy you find ReqView a necessary tool for requirements management.

It allows implementation across a large team. Its very easy to use and allows for collaboration over SVN. The floating license solution makes deployment pain-free. Syncronization to JIRA (and onwards to Enterprise Architect) is critical for us to allow full traceability from user needs, through requirements, specifications and (via JIRA) into implementation and test management. ReqView is also extremely stable and we have used it for projects spanning several years with no data loss or problems.

For very large projects with very many documents it can get hard to get the overview (a folder structure would be good). It would also be good to have notifications (ie when logging into the tool) if another user has left a comment for you (tagged a user in a comment)

Hi Bjorn, Thank you for the excellent review. We appreciate your positive feedback and your ideas for further development. We are delighted to see that ReqView helps you with your large-scale project and you would recommend it to others.

It is impressive the easiness and efficient way to build up links across requirements for traceability purpose. In addition, the tool is very easy to customize adding new attributes, new links! Very good importing capabilities from Reqif standard format which allow collaboration with main companies who are using DOORS for example. Support is also magnificent!

even if most of editing feature are quite good, editing is not at the same level of Word which is the standard de-facto. Sometime is difficult to manage table. Just another small glitch, while looking at the doc, column width is not sized accordingly to width of the table and this cause overlap on other columns next to each.

Hi Andrea, Thank you for the lovely review! We are glad that ReqView is a perfect fit for your needs.

I liked the ease of use and the ease of integration and deployment: Use: 1. The scale was familiar enough from other tools to get running quickly. Secondly, the documentation, and adaptability for scaling, quickly aided in meeting more needs. 3. Customer support was timely and punctual in all the engagements, from licensing to questions on features, to clarifications. Deployment: 1. The native tools and web applications make this so easily scalable. 2. There was no dependency of a third party service or cloud was extremely helpful. (like having to maintain a server side cloud with IT and all that comes with it) 3. The storage structure of json files enable great configuration management through various means like SVN or git!

Having various "views" of each document within a project would be wonderful - i.e a b-directional trace view for analysis, vs. a publication & authoring view to only provide what is needed for a document/template. Integration with Azure DevOps (ADO) would be nice, however there are current workarounds with CSV imports/exports. I also want to be able to utilize a bit more integration with other MBSE tools, such as Capella. This is not as straightforward even with the provided documentation on ReqIF imports.

Hi Bryce, Thank you for your awesome review! We plan to introduce "role-based views" soon.

I wished for something like this software for years - a world above manual requirements management in Word or Excel, inexpensive, able to customize to whatever extent you want. I use it for tying together system/stakeholder requirements, design architecture, risk management, and verification testing. The support is top-notch - I've received replies within a few hours of every question I've asked, and they even implemented an update into their software within a few weeks of me outlining a particular issue I ran into.

Takes some learning to get it set up correctly and some additional examples to start from would be helpful. Exporting documents (to Word/PDF) is a little clunky.

Thank you for wonderful review! Regarding export to Word, please check ReqView v2.8.0 , which we released recently. This version introduces enhanced direct export of MS Word DOCX and MS Excel XLSX files. You will like it.

Very user friendly and easy to use. It is like using DOORS as it should have been designed :-)

ReqView works on a file basis and separated projects. I would love to see a database version one day. Opening in projects in SVN could, in my perspective, be simplified. This is a minor issue. In time we could use some administrator limited functionality.

Hello Hans, thank you for awesome review! We really enjoy working with your team!

Hihgly recommended to simplify the traceability of the requirements, Hazard Logs, etc.

yu don't have a nice modification control. You could improve on this point.

Hello Adrian, Thank you for your positive feedback. That is great that ReqView helps you be more efficient in managing traceability.

We are a small development group that does not have the bandwidth to justify dedicated resources to learn and customize a complex tool. We have periods of heavy activity followed by months of not touching the tool, so ease of use was at the top of our list of priorities. Additionally, being in the medical device field, we already have many systems in place and do not want to disrupt what is already...

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Customization of outputs to fit the needs of the project documentation is usually a bear, and ReqView is no exception. We had the same issue (except worse!) with previous RM software. Someone who is well-versed in HTML and CSS might find this easy, and there is copious documentation available at w3schools.com, but I admit to spending much more time to generate a half dozen or so output scripts than the rest of the first project in its entirety! Now they are done, so it's no longer an issue for the future, but it was a steep curve. Obviously, if you only need formats closer to those provided, your experience will be easier.

The tool is easy to learn, very user friendly interface, easy to customize, useful help file. Allows the user to focus on the task of managing rqmts and not waste time learning the tool. The SVN integration is just great, makes commits, updates, merge a breeze.

At the moment, you cannot view more than one document in a project at a time (you can open several projects at the same time) when linking and reviewing linked rqmts takes a little more effort. However, the people at ReqView have told this is planned to be fixed so two or more documents from the same project can be viewed at the same time.

Peter, thank you great review! You'll be able to view and edit projects in more application windows very soon because we plan to release the first beta of this feature in few days. Linking documents displayed in different project windows will boost your productivity to the next level.

Easy to use, having most of the features needed for managing requirements in our projects. Unlike many other tools, ReqView is not overloaded with lots of stuff you won't ever need.

Realtime Collaboration ist not yet implemented. Working two or more people on same documents sometimes is difficult. But it looks like ReqView V3 will include that feature soon.

Hi Oguz, Thanks for the awesome review. Moving the team collaboration experience to the next level is our main focus at the moment. Regards, Libor

First of all: It's lightweight and not bloated like many other requirement engineering tools. During a relaxed afternoon you'll be able to have played with *all* of its features and have learned how to use it. Also important: The database format is basically just plain ASCII which makes it easy to compare with earlier versions, easy to be parsed by scripts and easy to convert to whatever-you-want.

Currently a licence expires after one year. There are no liftime licences.

Hi Philipp, Thank you for your awesome review! We are amazed how powerful automated document generation back-end have you set up. Regarding perpetual license, we are flexible and can offer a longer licence period fitting your needs, for instance PRO license valid for 5 years. Regards, Libor

It is a lean tool, which is quick and has good performance. Easy to use, no unnecessary features. It works very stable and it provides all vital functions you need for professional requirements management.

Multi-user support could be improved, merging is difficult. It would be great if vector graphics (PDF pictures) and tables would be supported. An automated PDF-book-export feature would be nice.

Hi Stefan, Thank you for your awesome review! We plan to introduce seamless team collaboration solution in the next major release, the work is already in progress. The other feature requests sound interesting. Lets discuss details on the Feature Request forum. Thank you for your trust and being our customer for almost 3 years. Regards, Libor

The software manages requirements very well and allows traceability through the entire Requirements/Risk document structure. The basic functions are easy to use. The ReqView team is very good at tracking user inputs to improve the software and they are very responsive to customer needs.

To use more advanced features requires at least a light knowledge of programming. I was able to figure out the features that I needed and the support at ReqView was very helpful and responsive when I did ask questions.

The software is easy to use and Eccam has provided outstanding support to customize reports and templates to meet our needs.

Importing existing requirements documents is a very manual process, but Eccam has held our hands in doing so.

Hello Roberto, Thank you for nice feedback. It is great working with you and your team. Regards, Libor

All I really wanted to do was get on with the task of defining my project requirements, and the thought of facing a steep learning curve, on any new requirements suite, was not something I wanted to go through. However, ReqView presented me with no such 'learning curve' hurdle, and as soon as it was installed I found I could get on with defining my project requirements knowing that the formatting of the 'deliverable' document could be refined later on in the process. This is exactly the sort of requirements platform I was looking for... and ReqView delivered it to me.

The general editing of tables could perhaps be enhanced. I found that the look and layout of them within the ReqView environment could be improved, and some of the editing features did not work exactly as intended. For example there is a confirmed bug associated with the table popup in the editor dialog, where the popup buttons or dropdowns don't work sometimes, such as when trying to edit rows. However the ReqView support team did provide a workaround which allowed me to get my editing done.

Thank you for feedback. We are happy that you appreciate how easy you started with ReqView. Thank you also for reporting usability issues of embedded tables. We are working on a fix and will introduce it in an upcoming release.

Easy and flexible. Use of standards e.g. json. The csv export is useful. Exporting from a csv is a useful feature, but sometimes it won't work.

I would like tpo have a intelligence in some rows. Referencing others and esecute a small script (e.g. LUA ). I miss the possibility to run two instaces with different projects.

Hello Bernd, thank you for your review. Regarding missing possibility for trace / impact analysis, you can generate custom multilevel traceability HTML reports enabling coverage / impact analysis. Please file a support ticket if you are unsure how to use this feature or if you have additional special needs. We will be happy to help. Good news is also that we are going to release soon the first beta of Templated Columns feature which will enable adding custom logic directly in the UI. For instance you will be able to display additional traceability information from the linked objects (even across multiple traceability levels) or display value of a calculated expression (e.g. Risk Priority Number). BR, Libor

I spend more time on the data, not the formatting. Reqview handles the numbering, formatting, and technical requirements of creating EDD's and external docs, so I can focus on content. I can track multiple data types (files, images, lists) elegantly. I can add custom attributes to my data to customize it.

The software can feel a little intimidating at first glance, but they supply tutorials & documentation.

The simplicity of using this software every day.

The HMI can be more atractive and intuitive.

Hi Santiago, Thank you for your awesome review. It is great that your team is very happy with using ReqView.

Its flexibility and configurability to very specific needs. It allows to structure and trace needs, requirements, tests and everything you want to manage in the tool in the way you wish. Very helpful is also the possibility to use the free version for viewing the database, which is managed by the license owners.

As every software which is not already used for decades, it has some bugs and inconveniences. But, the very responsive and fast development team was always able to find solutions for these, when I reported something like that.

Hi Torsten, Thanks for the nice review and good ideas you have suggested in our previous discussions. Regards, Libor

The most important feature I consider is traceability between documents and projects.

One feature that could be improved is exporting with Excel. The exportation with Excel could consider using templates.

Hi Gerard, Thank you for the marvelous review. We are happy that you find ReqView helpful in managing requirements traceability.

Very easy installation, steep learning curve, great support, clear user interface without gimmicks. Made for technicians!

Customizing document properties or creating custom report templates requires basic coding skills. This disadvantage is compensated by the great support. The roadmap reveals that hard work is being done to further improve the convenience.

Thank you for nice review! Please check the new traceability wizard, it will help you to generate an end-to-end traceability report for impact analysis in just a few clicks. Another new wizard for easy customization of document properties is on the way.

Very easy to get started with and use, like a spreadsheet specifically designed for requirements. I like the plain text storage, since i can get keep it in a git repo for changes.

some areas are a little too basic + theres some annoying features of the workflow i.e. when jumping between docs the page will often jump to the top when you wanted it to stay on a specific requirement.

Hello Robert, Thank you for your review. Can you please file a new support ticket providing more details about the issue with jumping between docs which you described? We will fix it asap. Thanks, Libor