Author: Hazel Woodcock
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Configuring Rational Quality Manager for Simplicity
Rational Quality Manager has a huge number of options. Paring that back to make a simpler tool is possible, and I am going to look here at some of the configuration options. From the Settings menu at the top right, the gear wheel, I will go through some of the important parts of the Project…
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Configuration management, a simple example… really!
Now that the DOORS Next Generation V6.0 has been out for a little while, I thought I should share some of my thoughts on how and why to use configurations. I am pleased to see that from an end user perspective, this is really easy to use – you get a work item linking to…
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Managing test data in DOORS Next Generation
The topic of test management comes up every now and again. Some people might remember the Test Tracking Toolkit from DOORS Classic, some might even have been using it recently. We also have a decent test management tool in Rational Quality Manager (RQM). I have been thinking about the options for a simplified way of…
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Documenting Interfaces
Documenting interfaces has always been a challenge. We put the interface requirements in a separate document and give that as a part of the documentation to the groups designing on both sides of the interface. Now I have a single document with all aspects of the interface neatly covered, but when I look at my…
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Thinking about workspaces in DOORS Next Gen with CM
I had one of those brain shifting conversations today, you know the type, where an obvious assumption of mine was totally different from the obvious assumption of the person I was speaking to. This is another post about the IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation with Configuration Management Beta software, for more information go to jazz.net…
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A basic CM Flow in DOORS Next Generation
A little while ago, I posted about Real Configuration Management for Requirements, but I didn’t go in to any detail about HOW it should, or could be used. Requirements engineers/managers are not typically working with configuration management at this level on a daily basis, so I have set out a very basic flow here. First…
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Managing DOORS Data across an air gap in the supply chain
I posted a while ago on using DOORS Partitions for offline working. In that post, I mentioned that we had worked out a process for managing the data in a supply chain, and that is what I am going to cover here. In an ideal world, you would have your suppliers directly accessing your data…
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Real Configuration Management for Requirements
DOORS Next Generation is getting Configuration Management capabilities. This is a huge step for DOORS NG, a requirements management tool. The CM capability is similar to what you might expect for source control, with similar language, like ‘streams’, ‘deliver’, ‘workspace’, and others. I think that we will find that many requirements management users (or Business…
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Cinderella SHALL go to the ball
Be part of a social experiment: share the IBM Innovate hallway conversations. IBM Innovate is soon to be underway, running from 1-5 June 2014. This year I didn’t get the Golden Ticket, so I am changing my name to Cinderella and staying home. I realized that I didn’t have to let a little thing like…
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Offline working in DOORS with Partitions
As our world becomes more connected, this topic comes up less often, but it is still an issue for many people. I am not talking about data sharing down the supply chain here, but about taking your work away with you on a laptop and returning it to the corporate database with updates some time…