IBM® 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. Using the Rational DOORS family
of products, you can optimize requirements communication, collaboration,
and verification throughout your organization and across your supply
chain.
Rational DOORS
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 more information on Rational DOORS,
refer to the product documentation: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSYQBZ_9.6.0/com.ibm.doors.homepage.doc/helpindex_doors.html
Rational DOORS Web
Access
Rational DOORS Web
Access gives you web-based access to the requirements in a Rational DOORS database. You can create, analyze, edit,
and discuss requirements from your office, your study, and the airport
lounge.
With Rational DOORS Web
Access business managers, development, QA, customers, and suppliers
can create, elaborate, and validate requirements using a web browser.
Early collaboration on requirements can help avoid errors early in
the development lifecycle and reduce project costs.
You can
deploy Rational DOORS Web
Access quickly and easily to your user community. No software installation
is required; all your users need is a web browser.
Rational DOORS Web
Access makes it easy to foster dynamic input on requirements:
- Stakeholders can add requirements, analyze or elaborate on existing
requirements, or validate a specification directly from their web
browser.
- Development teams can create traceability for impact analysis
and traceability compliance.
- Geographically distributed teams can stay up-to-date with the
latest project requirements information.
- Business users, marketing, suppliers, systems engineers, and business
analysts can collaborate directly through requirements discussions.
- You can achieve scalability fast by increasing the number of concurrent
users on a single requirements repository.
You log in to the web client with your Rational DOORS user
name and password. You can work with projects, folders, and modules.
By default when users log in, they are assigned a Review package that
provides read-only access to artifacts. If you have access to a license
for editing, you can switch to the Edit package to enable permissions
to create, edit, copy, move, and delete artifacts in the database.
You can select a default package to match your typical use as a reviewer
or an editor.