DOORS/Analyst is a visual modeling tool integrated within IBM's DOORS requirements management software. It allows users to create diagrams and models synchronized with textual requirements to facilitate requirements elicitation, communication, and systems development. Key benefits include low learning curve, traceability between visual and textual representations, customizable symbols, and enhanced stakeholder involvement, feedback, and collaboration.

1. DOORS/Analyst Modeling for Requirements Engineering

2. What’s your view? ” A picture paints a thousand words” ” A thousand readable words could have been put in the space of this one unreadable drawing” or... It is not ”either-or”, it is both. Hence: DOORS/Analyst

3. Requirements Engineering Challenges Requirements elicitation Elicitating all requirements from all stake-holders Define scope and boundaries for the problem as well as the suggested solution Requirements clarification Specify unambiguous requirements Attain mutual understanding of requirements among involved stakeholders Foundation for reuse Shorten development times by being able to reuse information created early later in the development lifecycle

4. Do You Visualize Requirements Today? When working with requirements do you create a picture – a mental model – of how the system should work? In requirements gathering workshops do you produce storyboards, Microsoft ® PowerPoint ® pictures or whiteboard scenarios? When communicating with other team members, do you draw pictures to explain how a requirement should be understood?

5. Introducing DOORS/Analyst Industry-first Visual Modeling Inside a Requirements Management Tool

6. DOORS/Analyst Capabilities Sketching diagrams or defining complete models Automatically creates diagrams from textual requirements and keeps them in synch Create! Save!

7. DOORS/Analyst Capabilities User-defined, domain-specific symbols create rich descriptions and overviews Maintains DOORS security levels, access control, baselining Links DOORS requirements to model for quick navigation and traceability

8. DOORS links from textual objects to model elements

9. Model ‘awareness’ with non-intrusive syntactic and semantic checks

10. Benefits of DOORS/Analyst Low learning curve and easy to get started No need to worry about keeping the different representations – visual and texual – up to date Based on familiar usability paradigms and standardized pictures and diagrams Improved requirements elicitation Get richer input from customers Less ambiguous requirements Easier to demonstrate requirements to end users Maintained traceability of requirements Quickly find the relevant model element via bi-directional links from textual requirements

11. Benefits of DOORS/Analyst (cont) Enhanced feedback and buy-in from stakeholders Elicit better feedback from key people in the organization Involve also non-technical people in the requirements management process Strengthened collaboration with other team members Quickly embellish requirements with sketches Ensure that requirements are completely understood by implementers Symbols and diagrams used are familiar to most system and software developers Simplified international cooperation Visual models provide ”common ground” for all

12. UML – A language for all disciplines Visit Telelogic’s website or www.uml2.com for updates! Design Analysis Test specification System Engineering Requirements Specification UML 1.x UML 2.x SysML

13. Export Models to TAU Transfer model to TAU/Architect Refine model, simulate and verify architecture DOORS/Analyst Transfer model to TAU/Developer Refine model, simulate and generate final application Establish a traceability chain to the original information in DOORS while models are transferred TAU/Architect TAU/Developer Application

14. Summary: DOORS/Analyst Easy-to-learn, yet powerful visual modelling inside DOORS Synchronizes and stores diagrams together with textual requirements Maintains traceability between text and models Provides customizable symbols Enhances requirements quality , simplifies internal and external communication , and jump-starts systems development

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