1.4 Tools

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Writing software requirements specifications as XML documents has quite a few advantages. Using open source tools like Emacs, PSGML, CVS and xsltproc gives us a powerful Requirements Engineering tool.

• Gather information using Emacs
• Validating specifications using psgml and XSLT
• Keeping track of changes using CVS and XSLT
• Creating nice output with xsltproc
• Transforming requirements data to project management tools

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This page lists Unified Modeling Language tools, classified by their proprietary or non-proprietary status.

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Subversion is an open source version control system. Subversion was originally designed to be a better CVS, so it has most of CVS's features. Generally, Subversion's interface to a particular feature is similar to CVS's, except where there's a compelling reason to do otherwise.

Subversion has since expanded beyond its original goal of replacing CVS, but its history influenced its feature and interface choices; Subversion today should still feel very familiar to CVS users.

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Software Engineering Tools are also known as Computer-Aided Software Engineering Tools ( CASE Tools). They are graphical, interactive tools used for the analyzing and designing the phases of application software development.

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There are some open source software testing tools.

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This is a list of notable software project management applications.