Rational DOORS RT Interface : How the RT Interface Works : Methodology Guidelines

Methodology Guidelines

In a typical Rational Statemate project, there are multiple users and multiple workareas. All of the workareas in the project can be used with the same Rational DOORS database. However, because some workareas may contain outdated versions of the model, it may be helpful to:

Divide the Rational Statemate model into groups of charts, and assign responsibility for editing and updating the charts to a variety of people working on the project.
Designate a single workarea as the Rational DOORS update workarea, and do all the updates from this location.

The amount of data that can be exported to Rational DOORS can be overwhelming. You should therefore determine beforehand what modules and how much data you will be exporting.

It is recommended that when you configure a module for export, you limit the exported data to a bare minimum to provide concise linking to the requirements.

For example, in a simple scenario, users typically define three separate element modules and a links module. The modules are used to contain use cases, sequence diagrams, and activity charts. The links module contains linksets, which define the explicit relationships (links) between, for instance, use cases and sequence diagrams, or sequence diagrams and activity charts.