Patent ID: 8312415
Filing Date: 2012-11-13
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method executed by a processor for notifying a user that changes to source code will impact project requirements comprising the steps of: providing a software development application, the software development application being operable to interact with a data store that contains project requirements for a software project and any associated source code that is related to one or more of the project requirements of the software project; receiving input from a user to select the one or more of the project requirements; receiving input from a user to associate the one or more of the project requirements with one or more underlying code elements of a software project that the one or more of the project requirements are designed to describe; using the association between the one or more of the project requirements and the one or more underlying code elements to monitor when a change is made to the one or more underlying code elements; and providing a notice to a user that the change made to the one or more underlying code elements of the software project impacts the one or more of the project requirements that are related to the one or more underlying code elements.