Rational DOORS

A requirements management tool for systems and advanced IT applications

IBM® Rational® DOORS® software is a leading requirements management application that can help you reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve quality by enabling you to optimize requirements communication, collaboration and verification — throughout your organization and across your supply chain.

• Provides a comprehensive requirements management environment

• Actively engaging all stakeholders in a collaborative requirements process by providing web browser access to the requirements database and integration to requirements definition capabilities

• Manages changes to requirements with either a simple pre-defined change proposal system or a more thorough, customizable change control workflow through integration to Rational’s change management solutions.

• Supports the Requirements Interchange Format, which enables suppliers and development partners to be directly involved in the development process

• Links requirements to design items, test plans, test cases and other requirements for easy and powerful traceability

• Scales to address your changing requirements management needs

• Enables informal requirements discussions with DOORS Discussions

• Includes the Test Tracking Toolkit for manual test environments, so testers can link requirements to test cases

• Supports the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) specifications for requirements management, change management and quality management which provides a generic and open way to integrate systems and software lifecycle tools.

• Integrations include Rational change management solutions, Rational Rhapsody, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Focal Point, Rational System Architect, Rational Software Architect (through partner), Rational Requirements Composer and many third-party tools, to provide a comprehensive traceability solution.

• IBM Rational DOORS® V9.3 and DOORS Web Access 1.4 - DOORS Web Access now available to DOORS users as part of the DOORS license

• New server side API provided for customizations - RM OSLC v1.0

• Generic integrations with Rational Change Management tools: Rational Team Concert (RTC), Rational ClearQuest and Rational Change

• 9 separate translated versions of DOORS including German, French and Russian

• Built in enhanced document generation (leveraging capabilities from RPE)Overall heightened security with SSL communication, smart card authentication and control over "authorized" customizations

• Improved analysis tools for web based filtering of requirements in DOORS Web Access 1.4

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• DOORS Product Family Brochure (1.2MB)
• Ten Steps To Better Requirements Management (133 KB)
• Customer case studies