OpenFastTrace (short OFT) is a requirement tracing suite. Requirement tracing keeps track of whether you actually implemented everything you planned to in your specifications. It also identifies obsolete parts of your product and helps you to get rid of them.
You can learn more about requirement tracing and how to use OpenFastTrace in the user guide.
Below you see a screenshot of an HTML tracing report where OFT traces itself. You see a summary followed by a detail view of the traced requirements.
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- 📹 Introduction Video (YouTube, 3:30 minutes)
- 🛗 Elevator pitch
- 📽️ OpenFastTrace Presentation (LibreOffice, 20 minutes)
- 🎬 OpenFastTrace Live Demo Script (Markdown, 1 hour)
If you want to use OFT, you have the choice between using it as part of your build process — typically with Maven or Gradle. Or you can run OFT from the command line.
Check the user guide for detailed information on how to use OpenFastTrack.
OpenFastTrace at it's core is a Java Archive (short "JAR"). This file contains the OpenFastTrace Library and an entry point for running OFT from the command line.
Pre-Built JAR files (called openfasttrace-4.0.2.jar) are available from the following places:
Check our developer guide to learn how to use the OFT JAR as dependency in your own code with popular build tools.
OpenFastTrace 4.0.0 and above only needs a Java 17 (or later) runtime environment to run. OpenFastTrace until version 3.x.x supported Java 11. Versions prior to that ran with Java 8. Note that only the latest version of OFT is actively supported.
If you just want to run OFT:
apt-get install openjdk-17-jre
The most basic variant to run OpenFastTrace is directly from the JAR file via the command line:
java -jar product/target/openfasttrace-4.0.2.jar trace /path/to/directory/being/tracedIf you want to run OFT automatically as part of a continuous build, we recommend using our plugins for Gradle and Maven.
For more details about how to run OFT please consult the user guide.
If you want to learn how to build OpenFastTrace, please check our Developer Guide.
You would like to contribute to OFT? Please check out our Contributor Guide to get started.