Choose your Preferred Life Cycle and SofIA will do the Rest

The importance of requirements engineering for software quality is well-understood in industry. It is also clear that requirements engineers need tools that do not prescribe only one type of development process. This paper presents an overview of SofIA, a CASE tool that provides maximum flexibility when modeling functionality, data or prototypes because it can use any given model to generate other models. SofIA is built on the experience acquired from having used the previous NDT-Suite in industrial projects for more than two decades. It achieves its objectives by supporting bidirectional transformations and guaranteeing traceability between all models. Initial evaluations performed in the academic environment have shown that students require less training and feel more comfortable when following their own modeling process.