--- type: reference, howto stage: Plan group: Certify info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#designated-technical-writers --- # Requirements Management **(ULTIMATE)** > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2703) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 12.10. With requirements, you can set criteria to check your products against. They can be based on users, stakeholders, system, software, or anything else you find important to capture. A requirement is an artifact in GitLab which describes the specific behavior of your product. Requirements are long-lived and don't disappear unless manually cleared. If an industry standard *requires* that your application has a certain feature or behavior, you can [create a requirement](#create-a-requirement) to reflect this. When a feature is no longer necessary, you can [archive the related requirement](#archive-a-requirement). For an overview, see [GitLab 12.10 Introduces Requirements Management](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSS7oUNSEoU). ![requirements list view](img/requirements_list_v13_1.png) ## Create a requirement A paginated list of requirements is available in each project, and there you can create a new requirement. To create a requirement: 1. From your project page, go to **{requirements}** **Requirements**. 1. Click **New requirement**. 1. Enter a descriptive title and click **Create requirement**. You will see the newly created requirement on the top of the list, as the requirements list is sorted by creation date in descending order. ## Edit a requirement > - [Added](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/218607) ability to mark a requirement as Satisfied in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.5. You can edit a requirement (if you have the necessary privileges) from the requirements list page. To edit a requirement: 1. From the requirements list, click **Edit** (**{pencil}**). 1. Update the title in text input field. You can also mark a requirement as satisfied in the edit form by using the checkbox labeled "Satisfied". 1. Click **Save changes**. ## Archive a requirement You can archive an open requirement (if you have the necessary privileges) while you're in the **Open** tab. To archive a requirement, click **Archive** (**{archive}**). As soon as a requirement is archived, it no longer appears in the **Open** tab. ## Reopen a requirement You can view the list of archived requirements in the **Archived** tab. ![archived requirements list](img/requirements_archived_list_view_v13_1.png) To reopen an archived requirement, click **Reopen**. As soon as a requirement is reopened, it no longer appears in the **Archived** tab. ## Search for a requirement > [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/212543) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.1. You can search for a requirement from the requirements list page based on the following criteria: - Requirement title - Author's username To search for a requirement: 1. In a project, go to **{requirements}** **Requirements > List**. 1. Click the **Search or filter results** field. A dropdown menu appears. 1. Select the requirement author from the dropdown or enter plain text to search by requirement title. 1. Press Enter on your keyboard to filter the list. You can also sort the requirements list by: - Created date - Last updated ## Allow requirements to be satisfied from a CI job > - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2859) in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.1. > - [Added](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/215514) ability to specify individual requirements and their statuses in [GitLab Ultimate](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.2. GitLab supports [requirements test reports](../../../ci/pipelines/job_artifacts.md#artifactsreportsrequirements) now. You can add a job to your CI pipeline that, when triggered, marks all existing requirements as Satisfied (you may manually satisfy a requirement in the edit form [edit a requirement](#edit-a-requirement)). ### Add the manual job to CI To configure your CI to mark requirements as Satisfied when the manual job is triggered, add the code below to your `.gitlab-ci.yml` file. ```yaml requirements_confirmation: when: manual allow_failure: false script: - mkdir tmp - echo "{\"*\":\"passed\"}" > tmp/requirements.json artifacts: reports: requirements: tmp/requirements.json ``` This definition adds a manually-triggered (`when: manual`) job to the CI pipeline. It's blocking (`allow_failure: false`), but it's up to you what conditions you use for triggering the CI job. Also, you can use any existing CI job to mark all requirements as satisfied, as long as the `requirements.json` artifact is generated and uploaded by the CI job. When you manually trigger this job, the `requirements.json` file containing `{"*":"passed"}` is uploaded as an artifact to the server. On the server side, the requirement report is checked for the "all passed" record (`{"*":"passed"}`), and on success, it marks all existing open requirements as Satisfied. #### Specifying individual requirements It is possible to specify individual requirements and their statuses. If the following requirements exist: - `REQ-1` (with IID `1`) - `REQ-2` (with IID `2`) - `REQ-3` (with IID `3`) It is possible to specify that the first requirement passed, and the second failed. Valid values are "passed" and "failed". By omitting a requirement IID (in this case `REQ-3`'s IID `3`), no result is noted. ```yaml requirements_confirmation: when: manual allow_failure: false script: - mkdir tmp - echo "{\"1\":\"passed\", \"2\":\"failed\"}" > tmp/requirements.json artifacts: reports: requirements: tmp/requirements.json ``` ### Add the manual job to CI conditionally To configure your CI to include the manual job only when there are some open requirements, add a rule which checks `CI_HAS_OPEN_REQUIREMENTS` CI variable. ```yaml requirements_confirmation: rules: - if: "$CI_HAS_OPEN_REQUIREMENTS" == "true" when: manual - when: never allow_failure: false script: - mkdir tmp - echo "{\"*\":\"passed\"}" > tmp/requirements.json artifacts: reports: requirements: tmp/requirements.json ```