Introduction To ReqPro

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Introduction To RequisitePro

Requirements Discipline14 November 2008

04/12/23 2Leslie Munday 2008

Precursor

In order to understand the material in this course, you should have previously taken (or have equivalent knowledge of) the following. There are no precursors to this

material.



Overview

In this presentation you will learn about: the different parts of the user interface, the commands for managing

requirements, how to manage a requirement’s

properties, how to use views to manage several

requirements, how to manage traceability between

requirements.


Open The Example Repository ReqPro Helps teams organize, prioritize, track,

and control changing requirements of a system or application.

Open RequisitePro from your start menu programs.

Clear the splash screen. Select the ‘Add’ button. Navigate to <Example ReqPro project>. Select and open the Example.rqs file. Example is added to your list of ReqPro projects. Select Example and click on ‘Open’. If prompted, enter your username and password.


Adding A Project To ReqPro


The Explorer View Like windows explorer,

it organizes artifacts within folders.

The folders are numbered to set their displayed order.

Application use case requirements are located in the ‘Application Use Cases’ folder.


What Does It All Mean?


What Can I Do? Click the secondary mouse button to

bring up a list of commands. Open a package to display its contents. Move things by dragging and dropping.

(items in the explorer view are easily moved, don’t panic if something has disappeared.)

Double click on an item to have it open and display its contents.

Create a subpackage within a package.


How To Work With Requirements

There are three methods to working with requirements: Through requirement properties, Through Microsoft Word, Through views.


How To Make A Requirement Requirements reside in the ReqPro

database or they can reside in a document.

To create a requirement in the database click on the RequisitePro command:

‘File ->New->Requirement’. To create a requirement in a document,

select the requirement text and click the MS Word menu command

‘RequisitePro->Requirement->New’.


Opening A Requirements Document

Select a document and execute the ‘Open’ command.

The document is opened in MS Word.


Creating A Requirement With MS Word

Requirement text is selected and a new requirement command executed.


Displaying Requirement Properties

RequisitePro allows maintenance of the name of a requirement:

Select a requirement.

Select Properties from the Requirement menu.

Select the ‘General’ tab and the requirement name and text is displayed.

Text that is read-only is edited from within the document that contains the requirement.


Requirement Attributes

RequisitePro allows user defined attributes to be associated with requirements.

The attributes are defined within the requirements management plan for the project.

To set attribute values:

Click on ‘Attributes’ tab.

Select attribute values from drop down boxes, or enter text into the field where appropriate.


Traced Requirements RequisitePro

supports requirements tracing: click on the

‘Traceability’ tab,

lists of requirements are displayed that are linked to and from this requirement.


Finding A Requirement Select the

requirement type

Use the ‘Find’ button to search for a requirement name.


Parent/Child Relationships

RequisitePro allows requirements to be linked in a Hierarchy.

The hierarchy is used by the project use cases.

To display hierarchy for a requirement:

Click on the Hierarchy tab.

Any parent or children requirements are displayed.


Attaching Notes To A Requirement

RequisitePro allows users to attach notes to a requirement:

Click on the ‘Discussions’ tab.

Select ‘Create’ to add a note.

Select ‘View’ to display an existing note.

Notes do not form part of the requirement (think of them as comments embedded in a Word document).

Note: Only users of ReqPro can view notes.


Displaying Requirement Changes

ReqPro maintains a complete list of changes to a requirement:

Click on ‘Revision’.

Click on ‘History’ button.

All changes that have ever been made to that requirement are displayed.


Working With Views The properties window only allows a single

requirement to be displayed. Views allow you to work with several

requirements at the same time. Select which requirements you wish to work

with by filtering the requirement attributes. There are 3 types of view:

Attribute matrix – displays a single requirement type and attributes that you select.

Traceability matrix – displays traceability links between two requirement types.

Traceability Tree – displays all requirements traced ‘out from’ or ‘in to’ a selected requirement type.


Creating A View

Select a folder where the view will reside.

Select the ‘File->New->View’ command.

Select the ‘View Type’ from the drop-down box.


The View Creation Window

• Check the ‘Private’ check box if you do not want anyone else to see this view.

• Click the ‘Browse’ button to browse to a location where the view will reside.

• Click the ‘Query’ button to filter requirements by their attributes.


Filter The Displayed Requirements

• This filter restricts the view to only display

requirements that are assigned to ‘me’.

• ‘Retain Hierarchical Display’ if you wish to see parent/child relationships in the view.

• Select whether to display the results sorted by the selected attribute.


Attribute Matrix

Use the mouse, ‘Shift’ and ‘Control’ keys to select attributes in a column.

Select ‘Set Value’ from the ‘Edit’ menu.

Enter an appropriate value and click ‘Ok’.


Traceability Matrix Use the

mouse, ‘Shift’ and ‘Control’ keys to select traceability points.

Select a command from the ‘Traceability’ menu.


Traceability Tree

Bring up the pop-up menu to edit the traceability links from this view.


Exercise Start RequisitePro. Open the Example project. Under ‘Application Requirements’, create a folder for the

Transmitter application. Within the Transmitter folder, create an AUC type requirement

named ‘Transmit Cargo’. Set the ‘Application’ attribute to Transmitter. Trace the requirement to BUC6 In the ’00 Views’ folder, create an attribute matrix view that

will display all AUCs, label the view <your name> ‘attribute matrix’.

Through this view, set the analyst attribute of your requirement to your name.

Open the ‘BUC traced to AUC’ Traceability Matrix and set some traceability links.

Open the BUC traceability tree and trace an AUC from a BUC step.


Summary

In this presentation you learnt: the ReqPro user interface, ReqPro commands for managing

requirements, how to set requirement’s properties, how to use views, how to manage traceability.

Education

Introduction To ReqPro