Rational DOORS - Features and benefits - Rational integrations

IBM Rational DOORS and Quality Manager
IBM® Rational® DOORS® integrates with IBM Rational Quality Manager, so you can base your test plans on your requirements and also link your test plans to them. With this approach, you can easily see when there are outstanding defects from a run of test cases that are linked to each of your requirements. Plus, you can measure the performance of the deliverable against the critical business requirements, rather than simply measuring against the results of the tests. Furthermore, analysts and testers can collaborate early in the lifecycle when requirements are developed, which can help reduce costly requirements errors, minimizing project rework and improving delivery time.

DOORS and IBM Rational change management software
The OSLC (Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration) integration of IBM Rational DOORS and IBM Rational change management software delivers comprehensive requirements change control for Rational DOORS users and automates the process of requirements workflow management. The requirements implementation interface ensures complete roundtrip traceability. Reports from Rational DOORS enable analysts to view the impact of changes to the entire system, from requirements, to change requests to code while charts and reports from the change management software show development activities associated with requirements. Teams can have bottom-up traceability back to the original change request and requirements.
The integration now supports the enhanced lifecycle capabilities provided by the IBM Rational enterprise change process (ECP), built on the Rational Change platform.

DOORS and Rational Requirements Composer
The integration of Rational DOORS and Rational Requirements Composer allows organizations to capture and define their high-level requirements using visual techniques and lightweight, ‘lean’ requirements practices, then decompose them in to finer-grained requirements in DOORS. For more information on this and other integration scenarios, visit jazz.net (link resides outside of ibm.com).

DOORS and IBM Rational Publishing Engine
The integration with Rational Publishing Engine extends the DOORS capabilities to extract DOORS data and generate documents by providing the ability to customize or define your own document templates using the intuitive and interactive Document Studio application. In addition Rational Publishing Engine can be used to extract data from multiple Rational and select third party products to produce documents with combined information from multiple sources.

DOORS and IBM Rational Tau
The seamless, role-based integration of IBM Rational Tau® and DOORS provides systems engineers and software developers with fine-grained traceability of their system and software models, easy link creation, and direct navigation between DOORS and Tau.

From Tau, users have full visibility of requirements in Rational DOORS and can link model elements in Tau with DOORS requirements without opening DOORS. DOORS users can readily access both the model and the links whenever needed, such as for traceability report generation and impact analysis.

The components necessary for the integration are present within both products, allowing for fast, easy set-up at no additional cost.

DOORS and IBM Rational Rhapsody
This integration enables requirements to be traced through to systems and embedded software design expressed in UML or SysML models. Requirements scenarios modeled in Rhapsody can be simulated to verify requirement accuracy.

DOORS and IBM Rational Focal Point
IBM Rational Focal Point™, a Web-based product portfolio management solution, adds critical prioritization, decision making, visualization, and planning capabilities to DOORS. With Focal Point's unparalleled decision making support, you can analyze features, product releases, and projects to balance what is most important to your customers against resource availability and cost. Then you can manage, track, and trace the requirements for those features, products, or projects in DOORS.

DOORS and IBM Rational System Architect
Rational DOORS captures and traces strategic business objectives through its integration with IBM Rational System Architect®, a leading solution for enterprise architecture and business process modeling. System Architect builds a foundation for business process optimization and, through its integration with DOORS, ensures that IT remains aligned with business goals.