Rational DOORS - Features and benefits - Traceability

Creating traceability with IBM® Rational® DOORS® is as simple as drag and drop between items on the screen. Link a requirement to a design item, to a test case or to another requirement with the click of a mouse.

Alternatively, pick the requirements from a list, or even enter requirement numbers as attributes and have DOORS make the links for you. DOORS lets you define the purpose of links or add explanations with link attributes. For projects with process improvement goals, rules for link creation and direction can be defined, which helps users follow the process and prevent careless mistakes. With the addition of link information to history records, DOORS continues to provide state-of-the-art linking and traceability capabilities to make it a leading requirements management and traceability solution for projects serious about success.

Rational DOORS is unique in providing end-to-end traceability reports in a single view, which can help analysts and project managers prioritize development work more efficiently and predict delivery time more accurately. DOORS offers teams a complete picture of traceability from user requirements through systems and software requirements to designs, tests and implementation tasks.

DOORS also provides support for external links which enables requirements to be directly associated with information outside of the DOORS domain. As traceability needs to be traversed in both directions, DOORS provides support for standard URL technology taking you directly to DOORS elements including Objects, Baselines, Modules, Folders, Projects or even the database as a whole. For example, requirements can be sent via email and viewed in DOORS Web Access or DOORS (where DOORS is installed on users' desktops). This combination of external links and standard URLs fully supports traceability between information in DOORS and in other repositories.