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Using the Integration


Initial Steps

To use the DOORS Integration, you must first:

  1. Start DOORS
  2. Open an existing project, or create a new one
  3. Create a new formal module

Note:

Do not use a prefix for the object identifiers in the formal module.

Do not manually add any objects in the formal module, as this will make it impossible to run Connect / Synchronize on this module.

If the DOORS Integration was successfully installed, there will now be a new menu in the formal module window, TauSDL. Otherwise, please check the installation procedure again.

Commands in DOORS

Synchronizing

The Connect / Synchronize command is used for two purposes:

After issuing this command, the formal module containing the surrogate model will now show a SDL Suite or TTCN Suite specific view, containing the symbol names from the Organizer view. If the view in the DOORS formal module is set to Tau View with Deletions, the attribute Deleted in Tau, which is set to Yes if a diagram corresponding to an object in the surrogate model was deleted in the Organizer, will also be shown.

The items from the Organizer that are exported to DOORS depend on the installed licenses:

Figure 128 : The DOORS formal module after synchronization

Figure 129 : The Organizer view after synchronization

Note:

The DOORS Integration uses the SDL Suite and TTCN Suite Link Manager to keep track of the objects which have been exported to DOORS. Do not try to edit the contents of the Link Manager view, as this may cause the synchronization procedure to fail.

After the synchronization is done, the following dialog will appear:

Figure 130 : Synchronization progress dialog

Note:

If this option is checked, there might be difficulties in managing these check boxes, since the dialog box will disappear immediately after a synchronization is performed. However, the checkbooks correspond to the formal module boolean attributes "TD AutoSync" and "TD AutoHide", which can be set using the regular DOORS module attributes settings dialog.

Navigating

In the Show Symbol menu, there are two sub-commands for navigating from DOORS to the SDL and TTCN Suites: In Organizer and In Editor.

Checking License Information

The command Show License Info can be used to check whether the licenses for the DOORS Integration have been installed properly.

Linking DOORS Requirements and Diagrams

To create links between DOORS requirements and diagrams in SDL Suite and TTCN Suite:

  1. Open the DOORS module that contains the requirements to be linked.
  2. Open the DOORS module that contains the surrogate model which represents the current Organizer contents.
  3. Use standard DOORS linking methods to create links between objects in the requirements module and objects corresponding to the diagrams/documents.

Commands in the Organizer

The command DOORS > Show Requirements in the Organizer will show a list of requirements which are linked to the DOORS formal module representing the selected diagram in the Organizer.

Figure 131 : Dialog showing DOORS requirements

By clicking on one of the requirements in the list, the corresponding DOORS formal module will open with the selection on the chosen requirement.

Commands in TTCN Suite

Objects that have been exported to a DOORS formal module are shown with an orange triangle symbol in the TTCN Suite browser.

The command DOORS > Show Requirements will show a list of requirements which are linked to the DOORS formal module representing the selected item in the TTCN Suite browser. Show Requirements is also available in the shortcut menu when you right-click on an exported object in the TTCN Suite browser.


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