A Collaborative Platform for Better Managing Technical Documentation: An Analysis from a Requirements Engineering Perspective

Requirements Engineering (RE) involves important activities of the system development process that requires a good communication among the stakeholders to achieve a shared vision of the problem to be addressed. Therefore a collaborative tool to manage system requirements specifications (SRSs) is crucial to manage the interactions and expectations of these parties. This paper introduces ITBox, a collaborative platform for better managing projects' technical documentation. Although this platform supports multiple types of technical documentation (such as project plans, requirements or tests specifications) specified according different languages and templates, this paper discusses particularly its features focused on a requirements engineering perspective. In particular, this paper discusses how to manage SRS documents with an emphasis on ITBox most innovative aspects such as on social, reusability and productivity features.