rsk is a intended to be an easy to use tool for a someone at any skill level or quality background to easily write and track their requirements.
Once installed call rsk -h and see the help message. rsk tutorial will start the
interactive tutorial.
Requirements and design-documentation are probably the most important components of writing quality software. Without writing out your requirements and tracking your design specifications, it can be very difficult to develop and maintain the product you were aiming to create. However, there are no open source tools (or proprietary tools for that matter) that make this process simple, easy and fun. rsk aims to do that by giving you a:
It is hard to keep documentation up to date, especially when it doesn't aid the core developer in tracking their progress. rsk aims to bridge that gap, giving you a simple tool that you can use to track your project completeness and test coverage.
If you like or use rsk please star:star: it on github and mention it to frieds and colleauges. It is my belief that requirements tracking needs to be as second nature for developers as revision control and unit testing has become. I hope that it will help us build better software and thus make the world a little bit better.
If you find bugs or have any suggestions, please open them here: bug tracker
rsk is still in Beta and is not 100% feature complete. The API for the cmdline and text format is expected to be stable, but the author reserves the right to change anything that needs to be changed if it improves usability.
There are currently two installation options: downloading a cross-linux musl binary or installing through Cargo.
Download this file and put it's directory in your PATH variable.
OR follow these directions
Run this in the terminal to download the rsk binary in ~/bin:
mkdir -f ~/bin && wget -q https://github.com/vitiral/rsk/raw/master/target/x86_64-unknown-linux-musl/release/rsk -O ~/bin/rsk && chmod a+x ~/bin/rsk
Now add ~/bin to your $PATH in .bashrc. With a text editor, copy/paste this to the end:
export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
Now run source ~/.bashrc. You should now be able to run rsk -h. Update by simply re-running the
first line.
Note: neither windows or mac are tested. If you try either, whether it works or not, please open an issue to let us know! If you have rust and cargo installed, simply execute:
cargo install rskand follow any directions it tells you to.
For a full tutorial, install rsk and run
rsk tutorial
If I was writing a hello world program in python and wanted to track requirements, this would be the process.
mkdir and cdto an empty folderrsk initmkdir docsvim docs/design.rsk and write my requirements and design
```
[REQ-world] text = ''' there shall be way to say hello to the world. All of it. '''
[SPC-world] text = ''' The hello-world function shall say hello by printing it on the cmdline '''
[TST-world] text = ''' To make this testable, there will be an intermediary function that can test it before printing. '''
[REQ-aliens] text = ''' there shall also be a way to say hello to aliens, but that will be harder '''
[SPC-aliens]
text = '''
I think we should use SETI or something
'''
5. `mkdir src`
6. `vim src/hello.py` and write my program
def helloworld(): ''' an intermediary function to allow for testing ''' return "hello world!"
def testgreeting(): ''' partof: #TST-world ''' assert _helloworld() == "hello world!"
def helloworld(): ''' partof: #SPC-world ''' print _helloworld()
if name == 'main':
testgreeting()
helloworld()
As you can see, we've finished our specs and tests for saying hello to the world,
but not to the aliens. It would be good to know if you had finished the second part
when the aliens arrive and rsk can help you do that!
7. `python2 src/hello.py`: it says hello world! That is good design :)
8. `vim ~/.rsk/settings.rsk` and add `"{repo}/src"` to `code_paths`
9. `rsk ls -L` to show this lovely status report (run on your own computer for color):
|--| 50% 50% | REQ
|--| 0% 0% | REQ-aliens
|DT| 100% 100% | REQ-world
|--| 50% 50% | SPC
|--| 0% 0% | SPC-aliens
|DT| 100% 100% | SPC-world |