Rational® DOORS® is a leading requirements
management tool that makes it easy to capture, trace, analyze, and
manage changes to information. Control of requirements is key to reducing
costs, increasing efficiency, and improving the quality of your products.
DOORS is an acronym for Dynamic Object-Oriented Requirements System.
Using the Rational DOORS family of products, you
can optimize requirements communication, collaboration, and verification
throughout your organization and across your supply chain.
At the heart of the family is Rational DOORS, an application that runs
on Windows, Linux, and Solaris systems. With its own built-in
database, Rational DOORS provides a rich set of features
to help you capture and manage requirements.
Rational DOORS makes it easy for everyone in your organization
and beyond to participate in and contribute to the requirements management
process:
- Using a web browser, you can access your requirements database
through Rational DOORS Web Access.
- You can manage changes to requirements with either a simple predefined
change proposal system or a more thorough, customizable change control
workflow through integration to Rational change
management solutions.
- With the Requirements Interchange Format, you can directly involve
suppliers and development partners in the development process.
- You can link requirements to design items, test plans, test cases,
and other requirements for easy and powerful traceability.
- Business users, marketing, suppliers, systems engineers, and business
analysts can collaborate directly through requirements discussions.
- Your testers can link requirements to test cases using the Test
Tracking Toolkit for manual test environments.
- You can use the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
specifications for requirements management, change management, and
quality management to integrate with systems and software lifecycle
tools.
- You can integrate with other Rational tools,
including Rational Requirements
Composer, Rational Rhapsody®, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Focal Point™, and Rational System Architect, and also many
third-party tools, providing a comprehensive traceability solution.
For videos about Rational DOORS, see this playlist on YouTube: IBM Rational DOORS Essentials.