You can use Rational® RequisitePro® requirements documents to develop textual elaborations of your elements and your use-case descriptions, flows of events, special requirements, and conditions.
RequisitePro documents use Microsoft® Word and provide a context for developing requirements and communicating product design. Each requirements document addresses a particular requirement type, such as product features, use cases, and supplementary specifications. A requirements document differs from a Word document in that you can access requirement attributes and other information directly from within the requirements document.
Requirements documents are displayed in the Requirement Explorer view
with a Word icon . You can open a requirements document and navigate directly to a
requirement from within Rational Software Architect; however, you cannot create a requirement in a document
from within Software Architect.
To work with a document, open RequisitePro and
edit the document from within that tool. To add existing requirements from
the RequisitePro database
to a document, use the RequisitePro copy
and paste functions.
Parent topic: Requirement concepts and artifacts
Related tasks
Viewing requirements and navigating in projects