For the February 2014 update of our list of requirements management (RM) tools, my colleague Gerald Heller and I researched for other lists of requirements tools, in order to extend and complement our collection. In the following you find the results of our investigation. Each list has its specific strengths and focus areas that are outlined in brief comments on each entry.
Requirements Management Tools
INCOSE’s RM Tools List (http://www.incose.org/productspubs/products/rmsurvey.aspx) has been the first large RM tools list we know of that was researched systematically. It is supplied with an extensive collection of (vendor-provided) tool characterizations. Unfortunately, the last update is from 2010 and much information stems even from 2008, so that most of the detailed tool information must be regarded outdated.
Volere’s RM Tools List: http://volere.co.uk/tools.htm. Vendors provide their own brief tool characterizations. Much information is not fully up to date. But the rather extensive list provides an easy to read overview of the RM Tools landscape.
Iain Alexander’s ’s RM Tools List at http://www.scenarioplus.org.uk/vendors.htm includes many tools that are not contained in INCOSE’s and Volere’s collections. A large subsection is on tools for requirements quality analysis.
The Tools Journal’s RM Tools List (http://www.toolsjournal.com/requirements-management-tools) is another list that provides a good overview of tools. But it also most information is not up-to-date.
Capterra’s list of requirements management products (http://www.capterra.com/requirements-management-software) contains about 40 tools and provides filtering support with regard to tool features.
Ludwig Consulting Services provide a fairly up-to-date list (http://www.jiludwig.com/Requirements_Management_Tools.html) that has last been updated in 2012 but also mentions some outdated tools. It includes a brief informative introduction text and contains some tools not provided in the previous lists.
IEEE Software magazine from July/August 2011 includes a tools survey (http://www.computer.org/csdl/mags/so/2011/04/mso2011040086-abs.html) that contains an elaborated overview characterization of 37 tools. The authors have set up a web page with brief characterizations of the tools. A PDF version of the article is also available from Vector’s media portal.
Ideation Tools
Ideation tools list at CreatingMinds.org: http://creatingminds.org/tools/tools_ideation.htm. It contains tools from various different areas, many of which can be relevant in certain requirements elicitation and requirements definition activities.
Agile Tools
Lists of agile tools at agileSCOUT: http://agilescout.com/top-agile-tools/best-agile-tools. The extensive list, grouped into two web pages on Scrum and Kanban tools, provides a good overview using a screenshot for each tool.
Steve Blank’s list of agile tools is part of his “Startup Tools” list (see subsection “Kanban and Scrum Tools”) and focuses on mostly light-weight tools that can be relevant to software startups: http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
Business Modeling Tools
Wikipedia page on tools specifically for BPMN notation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Business_Process_Modeling_Notation_tools
Listly’s BPM tools list (http://list.ly/list/CR-bpm-tools-essential-in-itsm-projects) contains 62 tools, with embedded media (screenshots, video clips) for some of the tools.
Process-Symphony blog presents a list of ten selected tools, along with an evaluation and rating: http://psymphony.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/top-ten-bpm-tools-you-cannot-ignore/
BPM-Software blog focuses on free tools: http://bpmsoftware.wordpress.com/free-bpa-tools/
UML Tools
The wikipedia list of UML tools (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unified_Modeling_Language_tools) provides tabular tool characterizations and feature overviws. It also contains links to other lists of UML tools.
OOSE’s list of UML tools: http://www.oose.de/nuetzliches/fachliches/uml-werkzeuge/. The list includes a table of detailed information provided by vendors, dating from 2012/2013.
The list at Listly offers screenshots, brief overview texts and possibilities for user voting and for user comments: http://list.ly/list/2io-popular-uml-modeling-tools
UI Mockup / Wireframing Tools
Steve Blank’s list of wireframing tools as part of his “Startup Tools” list (see subsection “Wireframing Tools”): http://steveblank.com/tools-and-blogs-for-entrepreneurs/
Usertesting.com presents a list of wireframing tools (http://www.usertesting.com/blog/2012/10/23/the-ultimate-wireframing-tools-guide/) along with guidelines and recommendations for tool evaluation.
The App Entrenpeneur website at http://theappentrepreneur.com/54-amazing-wireframing-tools-apps lists web apps as well as Android and iOS mobile apps with brief one-line characterizations of each tool.
Memeburn’s specialty is a list (http://memeburn.com/2012/09/25-of-the-best-wireframing-and-prototyping-tools-ever/) with embedded video clips from most of the tool’s vendors.
Econsultancy provides at http://econsultancy.com/blog/62700-18-practical-responsive-design-tools-and-resources-for-wireframing wireframing tools and and additional resources.
A commented list of selected tools is presented by http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/wireframe-tools/
creativebloq.com (http://www.creativebloq.com/wireframes/top-wireframing-tools-11121302) list tools along with platform and price information. It also contains some less conventional but interesting recommendations.
Last but not least, two lists of free wireframing tools: