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Grand Valley State University ScholarWorks@GV SU Funded Articles Open Access Publishing Support Fund 2-27-2014 Doorstop: Text-Based Requirements Management Using Version Control J ace Browning jacebrowning@ Robert Adams Grand Valley S tate University, adams@ Follow this and additional works at : /oapsf_articles Recommended Citation Browning, Jace and Adams, Robert, Doorstop: Text-Based Requirements Management Using ersion Control (2014). Funded Ar ticles. Paper 32. /oapsf_articles/32 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Open Access Publishing Support Fund at ScholarWorks@GVSU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Funded Articles by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks@GVSU. For more information, please contact scholarworks@. Journal of Software Engineering and Applications, 2014, 7, 187-194 Published Online March 2014 in SciRes. /journal/jsea /10.4236/jsea.2014.73020 Doorstop: Text-Based Requirements Management Using Version Control Jace Browning, Robert Adams School of Computing and Information Systems, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, USA Email: jacebrowning@, adams@ Received 24 January 2014; revised 20 February 2014; accepted 27 February 2014 Copyright © 2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Effectively managing the requirements and traceability in a complex software project can be a challenging task. Many tools exist to support the initial creation and management of changes to text-based requirements. The most popular commercial solutions use a centralized server to host a database with a front-end desktop or web interface. Som