IBM® Rational® DOORS® software is a leading requirements management application that can help you reduce development costs, increase efficiency, and improve quality. It enables you to optimize requirements communication, collaboration, and verification throughout your organization and across your supply chain.
Rational DOORS:
- Provides a comprehensive and collaborative requirements management platform.
- Integrates with Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to enable traceability from requirements to Work Items
- Links requirements to design items, test plans, test cases and other requirements for easy and powerful end-to-end project traceability
- Scales to address your changing requirements management needs
- Enables informal requirements discussions with DOORS Discussions
- Manages changes to requirements with either the built-in Change Proposal System or the integration with IBM® Rational® Change ™ or IBM® Rational® ClearQuest
The integration between Rational DOORS and Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) enables development teams that use Microsoft Visual Studio to create and maintain traceability from TFS Work Items in Visual Studio to requirements in DOORS.
Drag-and-drop linking between DOORS and Visual Studio
Through simple drag-and-drop, users of either DOORS or Microsoft Visual Studio can create links between requirements and TFS Work Items. Relationships are visible from either DOORS or Visual Studio. User-defined attributes on the requirement and TFS Work Item can be copied into the link from either environment. Users of DOORS and Visual Studio can then review the relevant information from within their environment. For example, a Visual Studio user can examine the link to see the priority of the requirement in DOORS. By navigating the links, users can review the details of the related information regardless of whether it's a DOORS requirement or a TFS Work Item.
Viewing and reporting traceability
Within DOORS, a requirements engineer or business analyst can create custom traceability reports that pull live data from within TFS to show full lifecycle traceability from user requirements in DOORS to development artifacts in TFS. In Visual Studio, the developer has a new custom-built view showing the selected Work Items with all related DOORS requirements displayed as elements within a hierarchy. By tracing back to requirements, developers understand the full context of what they are building.
Keeping link information up-to-date
To ensure that traceability remains current, the integration synchronizes information on either side of any existing links. For example, if objects on either side have been deleted, the links are removed. If data is stored on the other side of the link, it is also updated if it has since been modified.
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