The growing emphasis on governance and compliance in software and systems development increases the importance of requirements analysis, change management of requirements, and traceability from requirements through to other lifecycle artifacts such as defects, test cases, source code and UML models.

DoorKeeper for ClearQuest (DK4CQ) integrates Telelogic’s DOORS® requirements management product with IBM Rational’s ClearQuest change management product. The integration provides the ability to use ClearQuest to manage and propose changes to DOORS requirements and also to relate DOORS objects with ClearQuest records in order to achieve traceability amongst artifacts in a project.The integration also provides an API to be used from ClearQuest schema to extend the DoorKeeper functionality.

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Associate DOORS	View DOORS	Show CQ records	Functionalities

Benefits

• Consolidate on a single change management system for your project by utilizing ClearQuest to control,manage and propose changes to all project artifacts, including DOORS requirements.
• Achieve traceability between DOORS requirements and ClearQuest records (supports many to many relationships), including defects, work items and test cases as provided in the new ClearQuest Test Manager functionality.
• Analyze impacts on ClearQuest records including defects and testcases due to changes in DOORS requirements.
• Reduce efforts and mistakes by moving away from manual mappings and spreadsheets for tracking changes and tracing to DOORS requirements.
• Save money by leveraging a fully supported commercial integration rather than expending resources on in-house or custom built integration.
• Installs easily to standard or customized ClearQuest schemas without requiring manual changes.

Features

• From ClearQuest:
  • Select and associate DOORS objects with ClearQuest records in any state (Submit and Record form)
  • Remove and refresh associated DOORS objects.
  • View DOORS objects along with custom attributes in ClearQuest or navigate from ClearQuest to object in DOORS
  • View and clear suspect DOORS objects in ClearQuest
  • ClearQuest query and reporting capabilities may include DOORS information.
  • Build robust and flexible change proposal systems and other custom extensions using the DoorKeeper public API in ClearQuest.
• From DOORS:
  • Based on queries defined in ClearQuest, query and display ClearQuest record information in a DOORS view.
  • Based on queries defined in ClearQuest, navigate automatically from DOORS to a result set in ClearQuest
  • Persist displayed ClearQuest record information in DOORS module
  • Create a new ClearQuest record such as a defect from a DOORS object(s)
  • Associate and disassociate DOORS objects to ClearQuest records
  • Control the changes to DOORS objects using the ClearQuest record's lifecycle
  • Launch ClearQuest from DOORS
• DoorKeeper for ClearQuest works with customer specific ClearQuest schemas and existing DOORS installations.

Compatible Software

• IBM Rational ClearQuest (version 2003.06 or higher)
• Telelogic DOORS® (version 7.0 or higher)
• Microsoft™ Windows XP Professional, Microsoft™ Windows 2000 Professional, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 3.0