Cradle-7.1 has been certified for Citrix XenApp 7.6

Cradle-7.1 has been certified for Citrix XenApp 7.6 and can be accessed through the Citrix Ready Marketplace: https://citrixready.citrix.com/structured-software-systems-ltd/cradle-7-1.html.

Product Details

Cradle-7.1 integrates requirements management and systems engineering with full MBSE (including SysML, UML, BPM) for collaboration in agile and phase-based projects.
3SL’s Cradle is a tool to load, create, inter-link and publish information for all stages in a systems engineering project using agile, iterative or phase-based approaches and using any process. It is completely user-definable, scalable, flexible and secure. It can be deployed locally in your organisation or project, deployed to remote sites or partners, or delivered through SaaS from any private or public cloud. Cradle can support all your requirements management and systems engineering work in one tool, including:

  • Load information from external sources
  • Manage needs, user stories, requirements and a product backlog
  • Analyse the user needs, optionally with models (MBSE)
  • Define the design constraints
  • Define the architecture, optionally with models
  • Create the design, optionally with models
  • Define and track tests, issues and defects at all levels
  • Manage user acceptance and system validation
  • Conduct traceability and coverage analyses across all information in the entire lifecycle or any part of it
  • Publish documentation with user-defined layouts and templates
  • Manage work breakdown structures and user task lists, record actual progress, and link bi-directionally to project planning tools
  • Reuse and share information between projects

Cradle is available as a range of single-user products and the multi-user Enterprise product that adds configuration management, unlimited scalability and floating and dynamic concurrent user licensing. All Cradle products can be customised to your project and to your process. Cradle Enterprise provides additional customisation facilities to replace large parts of the Cradle UI with your own start pages and phase hierarchy that optimise Cradle to your process and your way of working. You can define web UIs for each stakeholder group that present the information needed by each group with the features and controls needed by that group to do their work.

Features

  • Full lifecycle systems engineering environment
  • Completely userdefined database with unlimited item types, items, attributes, data, link types, and cross reference links
  • Manages information source documents, through needs and requirements into architecture and functionality/behaviour to testing, V&V and acceptance
  • Massively scalable for small to large, distributed teams
  • Full traceability from source documents, through any engineering process into all published documentation
  • Usable across all industry sectors and government agencies
  • Can manage contractual relationships in entire supply chain

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Shoulds and Shalls

Conformance Checker

Do you need to validate the quality of your Requirements?  Using Cradle’s Conformance Checker will help you sort the to sort the “shoulds” from the “shalls”. Validate your items’ text  with a set of regular expressions to ensure you have clear statements.

Picture of conformance checker output
Conformance check your “Shoulds” and “Shalls”

Language Analysis

There are numerous aspects you can search for in the Cradle Conformance Checker.

  1. Stipulations such as Shall and Must
  2. Expectations such as Should
  3. Desires such as Might
  4. Continuations such as  As Follows
  5. Exemplifications such as e.g.
  6. Detractions such as Around
  7. Incompletes such as TBD

These can all be altered to suit your language and product / engineering domain. They are written as Regular Expressions (Regexes) through the project setup.