Cfrgtkky

My aim is to build an automatic Traceability Matrix at the end of my document. For that, I define all requirements to be validated at first and after, in different sections which one is tested.

The code is based on this issue, but I'd like to simplify this with an automatic generation of label name, and for that, I want to use a counter.

This is the code:

documentclass{article}



newcommand{requirements}{}

providecommand*phantomsection{}



makeatletter

newcommand{req}[1]{%

  textbf{R#1}%

  phantomsection

  def@currentlabel{R#1}%

  label{req@#1}%

  g@addto@macrorequirements{{req@#1}}%

  global@namedef{req@#1@ismetby}{}%

}



newcommand{meetsreq}[1]{%

  ref{req@#1}%

  expandafterg@addto@macrocsname req@#1@ismetbyexpandafterendcsname 

              expandafter {expandafter{@currentspec}}%

}



newcommand{specswithreq}[1]% 

% The space before ref below is intentional and will be swallowed by xintApply

% It is not mandatory however, the thing works without it too.

 {xintListWithSep{, }{xintApply { ref}{csname #1@ismetbyendcsname }}}



newcommand{spec}[1]{label{spec@#1}gdef@currentspec{spec@#1}}

% (update Jan 5, to use gdef rather than def in spec, allowing more flexible usage; has its pros and cons)

makeatother



usepackage{xinttools}



usepackage{hyperref}% check if ok with hyperlinks

hypersetup{colorlinks=true}

newcounter{argcnt}setcounter{argcnt}{0}





begin{document}





section{Requirement LIST}



[req{R1}] requirement 1



[req{R2}] requirement 2



[req{R3}] requirement 3



[req{R4}] requirement 4



[req{R5}] requirement 5



[req{R6}] requirement 6





section{section1}

setcounter{argcnt}{1}

spec{1}  Test 1 covert : meetsreq{R1} meetsreq{R2}



section{section2}

setcounter{argcnt}{2}  

spec{theargcnt} Test 2 covert : meetsreq{R4} meetsreq{R2}



section{section3}

setcounter{argcnt}{3} 

spec{3} Test 3 covert : meetsreq{R6}



section{section4}

setcounter{argcnt}{4}  

spec{4} Test 4 covert : meetsreq{R2}, meetsreq{R3}



section{Tracability MAtrix}



begin{table}[htbp]

begin{tabular}{|l|l|}

hline

Requirement & Specification   \ 

hline

xintFor* #1 in requirementsdo {ref{#1}&specswithreq{#1}\

                                  hline }%

end{tabular}

end{table}



end{document}

Like you can see in the picture the generation with the counter function doesn't work. The Matrix doesn't link the correct test to the good requirement.

newcommand{spec}[1]{label{spec@#1}def@currentspec{spec@#1}}

will use the argument #1, in this case theargcount. This is evaluated too late here, you need the value (or expansion) of theargcount in the very moment spec is applied, i.e. use xdef@currentspec{spec@#1}.

documentclass{article}



newcommand{requirements}{}



makeatletter

newcommand{req}[1]{%

  textbf{R#1}%

  phantomsection

  def@currentlabel{R#1}%

  label{req@#1}%

  g@addto@macrorequirements{{req@#1}}%

  global@namedef{req@#1@ismetby}{}%

}



newcommand{meetsreq}[1]{%

  ref{req@#1}%

  expandafterg@addto@macrocsname req@#1@ismetbyexpandafterendcsname 

              expandafter {expandafter{@currentspec}}%

}



newcommand{specswithreq}[1]% 

% The space before ref below is intentional and will be swallowed by xintApply

% It is not mandatory however, the thing works without it too.

 {xintListWithSep{, }{xintApply { ref}{csname #1@ismetbyendcsname }}}



newcommand{spec}[1]{label{spec@#1}xdef@currentspec{spec@#1}}

% (update Jan 5, to use gdef rather than def in spec, allowing more flexible usage; has its pros and cons)

makeatother



usepackage{xinttools}



usepackage{hyperref}% check if ok with hyperlinks

hypersetup{colorlinks=true}

newcounter{argcnt}setcounter{argcnt}{0}





begin{document}





section{Requirement LIST}



[req{R1}] requirement 1



[req{R2}] requirement 2



[req{R3}] requirement 3



[req{R4}] requirement 4



[req{R5}] requirement 5



[req{R6}] requirement 6





section{section1}

setcounter{argcnt}{1}

spec{1}  Test 1 covert : meetsreq{R1} meetsreq{R2}



section{section2}

setcounter{argcnt}{2}  

spec{theargcnt} Test 2 covert : meetsreq{R4} meetsreq{R2}



section{section3}

setcounter{argcnt}{3} 

spec{3} Test 3 covert : meetsreq{R6}



section{section4}

setcounter{argcnt}{4}  

spec{4} Test 4 covert : meetsreq{R2}, meetsreq{R3}



clearpage

section{Tracability MAtrix}



begin{table}[htbp]

begin{tabular}{|l|l|}

hline

Requirement & Specification   \ 

hline

xintFor* #1 in requirementsdo {ref{#1}&specswithreq{#1}\

                                  hline }%

end{tabular}

end{table}



end{document}