Linking change sets in the DOORS Next application to work items
To increase traceability in the development lifecycle and prevent the delivery of unauthorized changes, you can track your work in change sets and create links between change sets in the IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS Next (DOORS Next) application and work items in the IBM Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) application.
Before you begin
- Ensure that you are familiar with project areas, components (if supported), baselines, streams, and change sets (if supported).
- Ensure that you are logged in to a project.
- You must have permission to manage change sets.
- A change set must exist.
About this task
You can link a change set to one or more work items.
An administrator can further control changes to artifacts by requiring team members to link change sets to work items or change requests that have at least one approval. The governance of your project or organization determines when this option is enabled. Suppose, at the start of a project or release, this option might not be enabled so that team members might easily deliver many changes. Towards the end of a milestone or release, linking change sets to work items can be enforced so that only authorized changes are delivered. If this option is enabled, review the work item to ensure that it is approved (as defined by the application that manages work items) before you deliver your change set. Dependent change sets must also be linked to approved work items.
Linking change sets to work items
About this task
- If a change set exists in the global configuration, or the configuration context is set to the change set itself, click . Then, follow the instructions in the dialog box.
- If the configuration context is set to a global configuration or a stream that contains the change set, go to the change set editor page to assign links to work items. Follow the procedure.
Procedure
Results
Viewing links between change sets and work items
About this task
- DOORS Next application: Click the Current Configuration menu on the banner when you're working in a change set, or open the change set editor.
- EWM application: Go to the Links tab of the work item. People can follow the link to the change set to see its contents and compare it to the stream it originated from.