Integrating Requirement Management with Rational Software Architect Designer

IBM® Rational® Software Architect Designer (RSAD) provides an integration with Rational DOORS Next Generation (DNG) which is part of the Rational Collaborative Lifecycle Management (Jazz CLM) solution. This integration allows you to visualize requirements from DNG in a view inside RSAD, and to create links from elements in your model to those requirements. Different kinds of links can be created to express how the model element relates to the requirement. For example, you can specify that a model element refines a requirement.
Once you have created links from model elements to requirements you can use them for several things:
  • You can navigate from model elements to related requirements.
  • You can perform impact and traceability analysis to understand how changes to the requirements will affect the model, and vice versa.
  • You can export your model, including the requirement links, to a Design Room ONE web server. This server integrates with Jazz CLM, so that your links also can be seen on requirements in DNG. It also makes it possible to create links from other Jazz CLM tools to elements in your model, and to create reports using Rational Publishing Engine. For more information about Design Room ONE, see the Design Room ONE User Guide in the DevOps Community site.
Note: The Requirement Management Integration feature is an optional feature when you install RSAD. Also note that this feature is available in the Design Room ONE update site that can be installed on top of RSAD. Due to the different release schedules of RSAD and Design Room ONE, the version included in Design Room ONE will often be newer. If you want to use that version, which is recommended, you should therefore not install the version that is included in RSAD. If you already have installed the RSAD version of the Requirement Management Integration feature, you must first uninstall it before you can install the version included in Design Room ONE.
  • Connecting to a DNG server
    You can use the Requirement Management Explorer view to connect to a DNG server where your requirements are stored.
  • Linking UML model elements with Requirement Management elements
    You can link requirement elements with UML model elements. This linking can be managed by defining a linking policy, which decides the type of link that needs to be created by default.
  • Links view
    If your model contains many links to requirements and collections on several different model elements, you can use the Links View to get an overview of all links in the model. The easiest way to open this view is to use the Quick Access field in the toolbar.
  • Refreshing and synchronizing links
    Some information about linked requirements are stored in the RSAD model, for example the requirement name. This information is written when establishing the link to the requirement, and it makes it possible to show information about linked requirements even when the DNG server is not available.
  • Global configurations
    If you installed support for global configurations in Jazz CLM, all global configurations that you defined in the GC application appears under the Global Configuration node in the Requirement Management Explorer view:
  • Traceability and impact analysis
    The Query context menu in the Project Explorer provides commands for conducting traceability and impact analysis. When your model elements have links to requirements or collections, these queries treat such links as dependencies, and visualize them in a diagram. These visualizations can provide valuable insights about how model elements trace back to requirements (traceability analysis) or how changes to a requirement would impact the model (impact analysis). For example, the below impact analysis diagram (generated by means of the command Query – Impact Analysis – All Suppliers) shows how a class Globalize is impacted if certain requirements or other dependent classes (DateTimeFormatter) are modified.
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