Testing SoDA Templates

The following suggestions can be helpful as you design your templates:

§  Maintain backups of all templates.

§  When creating or modifying templates, save them separately from the supplied SoDA templates.

§  Do not modify the original SoDA-supplied templates in the SoDA templates domain subdirectories. These are used in the tight integration within each Rational product. These also provide a clean starting point for new templates.

§  Establish a numbering scheme for the different revisions. Use the File > Save As command in Word to name each revision.

§  Create a minimal sample domain that includes all the elements in your actual domain. This sample set allows you to generate quick tests of template on a representative subset of your actual source information.

§  Edit each template, as needed, directly in the template or in the Template View.