Rational DOORS RT Interface

Rational DOORS RT Interface

 

 

This section describes the Rational DOORS RT Interface. The topics are as follows:

Systems engineers typically need to demonstrate that their system design specification and the models they build from that specification map back to the original customer requirements.

If the customer is using Rational DOORS (Requirements and Traceability Management Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System) to manage the project, Rational Statemate provides a Statemate–to–DOORS interface (RT Interface) that enables the Rational Statemate project manager to export Rational Statemate elements to the Rational DOORS repository.

The RT Interface enables you to:

Represent a Rational Statemate model in a Rational DOORS formal module so that the Rational Statemate model can be viewed as a special kind of requirements module filled with design elements.
Support the automatic creation and population of Rational DOORS link modules. These provide the means to link certain Rational Statemate elements within the Rational DOORS module.

The RT Interface is designed to be used in environments where a one-to-one relationship exists between a Rational Statemate project and a Rational DOORS project.

Although it is possible to relate more than one Rational Statemate model to a Rational DOORS project, it is recommend that you do NOT do this.

Because the full name of each Rational Statemate chart element (chart:name) must be unique within the Rational DOORS/Statemate module, it is recommended that you restrict the mapping to one module, one Rational Statemate project, one Rational DOORS project.

The RT Interface attempts to impose as few restrictions on process management as possible. You determine what elements to export and when they are to be exported, following the guidelines that are presented in this section.