Managing requirements

Use the capabilities that are described in this section to manage requirements.

Standard links, external links, and collaboration links
Use links to associate requirements with other requirements in IBM® Engineering Requirements Management DOORS® (DOORS), and with resources outside of DOORS.
Link modules, linksets, and linkset pairings
Link modules store information about standard IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (DOORS) links. Within each link module, the information is subdivided into linksets. Each linkset contains information about the links from one particular module to another. External links are not stored in link modules.
Automatic link discovery
When you configure IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (DOORS) to use OSLC to integrate with a remote server, and DOORS uses link discovery to determine whether there are links to the remote server, you can determine whether link discovery is performed automatically or decided by individual users.
Links and traceability
Links give you traceability, so you can check that what you are building satisfies your user requirements. Links in IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS (DOORS) also allow you to manage change. You can quickly find out what impact a change has on your project.
Tracking changes to IBM Engineering Requirements Management DOORS data
Use history records and links to track changes to data, and manage the impact that changes have to other items in the database.
Baselines
Baseline set definitions and baseline sets
Electronic signatures
The change proposal system

Parent topic: Managing and composing requirements